Building Series & Parallel Circuits with PhET Simulations

This video shows you how to build and investigate series and parallel circuits with the Circuit Construction Kit: DC (HTML 5) simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations.
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Glad it helped and you are most welcome.

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thanks. this was really helpful!

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[@wanderingsoul2758]

God bless you, I would have completely failed my lab if not for you.

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Thanks so much, best wishes to you.

[@tedlahm5740]

Excellent explanation of Kirchhoff's voltage rule for series circuits.
Excellent explanation of Kirchhoff's voltage rule for parallel circuits.
Needs a little more detail on the parallel circuit with reference to the voltage.

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Thank you so much. Helped a lot!

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[@felixagoya9981]

How do I connect a resistor of less than 100ohm

[@JackMeyer09]

Thanks so much for making this video.

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[@hannahmarie0814]

Thanks for this video, i've been struggling bcs im not good at science but i accidentally see this video it save's me hahahah, lol.

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Glad the video was helpful. You can do this!

[@cyqerprince4357]

Thank you so much! This is very helpful

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So glad it was helpful!

[@JB_Tek]

is there still a parallell connection if i use 3 batteries and one light bulb instead? the opposite of what you did

[@volcomsnow1376]

Yes only if you connect them in parallel (batteries). Now If you do this you need to make sure tha batteries are at the same voltage. If not the batteries will just charge the others untill they are at the same voltage. Now on the battery you need to wire them together + to + and - to -. Now doing this will combine the amperage but keep the voltage the same and the opposite for a series set up

[@gnfallan]

thank you for this i missed school and my homework was to do this and i didn’t know how to do it until this video showed me

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Glad I could help!

[@projectb3117]

Any idea how you can make 1 light work from 4 different switches? Thanks

[@rik0_]

put the switches in paraller?

[@greatroomescapelaytonutah9984]

Thank you so much! I'm still new with electricity at my escape room and this was just what I needed!!

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My pleasure, glad it was helpful.

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[@madisonheithcock833]

can you post the answers... like asap
please I'm still so lost

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Answers to what?

[@Fsaqaf]

Thank you💐💐

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You’re welcome 😊

[@scarface6551]

How do you make a light bulb turn on and off tho?

[@stepbystepscience]

Open the switch so no current flows through the bulb.

[@cloudsinclair3866]

I'm literally in the middle of a lab panicking because I dont know how to do circuits so I hope this is helpful 💔

[@stepbystepscience]

I hope it helps, let me know. Have fun be

[@cloudsinclair3866]

@@stepbystepscience I just finished the video and this makes so much more sense, thank you so much 😭🙏💙

[@wanderingsoul2758]

Oh God same

[@edstreet8554]

Can you save a simulation you've built? If so how do you do that?

[@stepbystepscience]

I think it has that feature, but I have found it not to be very reliable.

[@dhanuraam2445]

It's understanding very clearly sir your great

[@stepbystepscience]

Thank you and best wishes

[@ryanschreck9722]

Is there no way to save/load projects?

[@stepbystepscience]

I have not used the save feature in awhile, I know it was there before but if I remember correctly it did not work well.

[@mmtt3800]

Plz, name of simulator

[@stepbystepscience]

It is in the video, right at the beginning.

[@Blxq]

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[@ChimwemweSimuchimba-ij4rk]

But how come when try to panch on a calculator it isn't giving the same answers you have shown

[@stepbystepscience]

Maybe you are putting it into the calculator incorrectly. Can you ask someone to confirm how you are entering the values.

[@beluga1582]

Thx

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Any time!

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[@HivenPaul]

Tnx

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Welcome

[@loayodish4296]

Hi how do I get the app

[@stepbystepscience]

No app necessary, phet.colorado.edu

[@gashanima8114]

youre angel

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[@stepbystepscience]

I do not understand????

[@laurasz2]

Obrigada amigo, eu odeio meu professor de fisica!

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You are very welcome, sorry about the physics professor.

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