introducing the electric house project

we were given this project to demonstrate what we know about circuit testing and building, it was mandatory for us to include the following…

• 4 separate rooms
• 4 separate circuits
• parallel circuit
• series circuit
• complex circuit
• a circuit of our choice demonstrating what we know.

 

full House

bedroom 

kitchen

bathroom

living room

here are a few photos of our house with 4 rooms all containing its own circuit and switch.

bedroom: series

Bathroom: parallel

living room: our own

kitchen: complex

CIRCUITS: 

SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS:

Electric house project questions

1. You have 3 lightbulbs. All have the same intensity when lit. Explain how you can prove to a classmate that they are connected I series by unscrewing one lightbulb. Support your answer.

 

• ANSWER: if you have a series circuit it means that all the light bulbs are connected by only one path for electrons t flow, and the electrons flow through all the lightbulbs. So, when you remove one lightbulb it will break the flow of these electrons all the other ones will go out too because the flow of electrons will stop and would stop the electricity being produced.

 

2. You have three light bulbs. All have the same intensity when lit. Explain how you can prove to a classmate that they are connected in parallel by unscrewing one light bulb.

 

• ANSWER: parallel circuits are all connected with its own piece of wire, meaning there are multiple pathways for the electrons to flow through. The electrons would now have an option in which way they want to go meaning if one light bulb is unscrewed they will still be able to travel through the remaining wire

 

3. You have three light bulbs. Two are connected in parallel. This parallel combination is connected in series with the third light bulb. Describe the relative intensity of each bulb. Support your answer.

 

• ANSWER: the 2 lightbulbs connected in the parallel would be less vibrant because in the series the electrons are forced to travel through it, but with the parallel they can still choose which wire they want to go through, meaning that there will be more electrons flowing through the series.

4.  In question number three, describe the relative intensities of the two remaining lit bulbs if one of the bulbs in parallel was unscrewed. Support your answer.

 

• ANSWER: If 2 of the bulbs were on a parallel circuit and we unscrewed one, the other one would not be affected, because they are being connected by a different wire. but the remaining parallel bulb will shine brighter than when both parallels were there. The series bulb and the one remaining parallel bulb will no have the same brightness because they have the same amount of electrical current flowing through them.

 

 

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