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DC circuits in daily life

Electrical Technology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

Torches, solar lanterns, phones, radios and vehicle electrics as everyday DC, and why the laws still apply.

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  • 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
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  1. DC circuits
  2. Current, voltage and resistance
  3. Properties of resistors
  4. Ohm's law
  5. Using Ohm's law
  6. Kirchhoff's current law
  7. Kirchhoff's voltage law
  8. Series resistor networks
  9. Parallel resistor networks
  10. Series-parallel networks
  11. Constructing resistor networks
  12. Cells in DC circuits
  13. Analysing a DC circuit
  14. Open and short circuits
  15. Tracing faults in DC circuits
  16. DC circuits in daily life