Electric House Project
Introduction: For our Electric House Project, we were assigned to create, design, and build a house with four distinct rooms and 4 different circuits. We had to have one series circuit with a minimum of two lights, a parallel circuit with a minimum of two lights, a complex circuit with a minimum of three lights and a custom circuit. We were supposed to draw out the circuits and connect them together within the house to make functional lights within the room. The lights should’ve turned on by a switch (Paper clip). My group and I built four distinct rooms with 4 different circuits. (One in each room.) Kitchen and living room on the first floor, and bathroom and bedroom on the second floor.
Pictures of house and drawn diagrams of the circuits:
Questions:
You have 3 light bulbs. All have the same intensity when lit. Explain how you can prove to a classmate that they are connected to series by unscrewing one light bulb.
A series circuit is a circuit in which there is only one path for the electrons to flow through. If you remove a lightbulb, that means that the circuit is broken and the electrons have no way of flowing through to the other lightbulbs. Therefore, if one f the light bulbs is unscrewed, all of them will not work.
You have 3 light bulbs. All have the same intensity when lit. Explain how you can prove to a classmate that they are all connected in a parallel by unscrewing one light bulb.
Unlike the series circuit, a parallel circuit allows the electrons to flow through two different pathways. If one lightbulb is unscrewed in a parallel circuit, the other lightbulbs should still be turned on. (If one lightbulb is unscrewed, it only breaks one pathway. There is still another pathway for the electrons to flow through.)
You have 3 light bulbs. Two are connected in a parallel. This parallel combination is connected in series with the third light bulb. Describe the relative intensity of each bulb.
If you have a parallel and a series in one circuit, it is called a complex circuit. Since the electrons in a parallel circuit have two different pathways to go through, the lightbulbs that are part of the parallel circuit will be dimmer. But in the series circuit, the electrons only have one pathway to flow thorough so the lights were be more strongly and equally lit.
In question number 3, describe the relative intensities of the two remaining lit bulbs if one of the bulbs in parallel was unscrewed.
If one of the light bulbs that is part of the parallel circuit is unscrewed, the other parallel light will be part of the series circuit with the other light bulb. The two lights will have equal intensity. The electrons now only have one pathway to flow through and will act like a series circuit.
Self Reflection:
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