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    Electricity: Name: Class: Date Given: Date Due in

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    This document provides information and questions about electrical circuits. It includes diagrams of sample circuits and questions about circuit components, current, potential difference, and circuit completeness. Students are asked to identify circuit symbols, describe current at different points, explain why circuits shown have no current, and draw a combined circuit diagram including an ammeter to show current flow.

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    Electricity: Name: Class: Date Given: Date Due in

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    This document provides information and questions about electrical circuits. It includes diagrams of sample circuits and questions about circuit components, current, potential difference, and circuit completeness. Students are asked to identify circuit symbols, describe current at different points, explain why circuits shown have no current, and draw a combined circuit diagram including an ammeter to show current flow.

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    This document provides information and questions about electrical circuits. It includes diagrams of sample circuits and questions about circuit components, current, potential difference, and circuit completeness. Students are asked to identify circuit symbols, describe current at different points, explain why circuits shown have no current, and draw a combined circuit diagram including an ammeter to show current flow.

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    Electricity: Name: Class: Date Given: Date Due in

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    T. Christabel Vijitha
    This document provides information and questions about electrical circuits. It includes diagrams of sample circuits and questions about circuit components, current, potential difference, and circuit completeness. Students are asked to identify circuit symbols, describe current at different points, explain why circuits shown have no current, and draw a combined circuit diagram including an ammeter to show current flow.

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    Name: Class: Date given:

    Date due in:

    Electricity
    1. Draw the correct symbol to represent each of the circuit components listed below. [4]

    a. cell b. lamp c. open switch d. ammeter

    Look at the circuit drawing.


    X
    2a. Describe the current at the points X, Y and Z on the circuit. [1]
    1
    
    Y
    
    2
    
    Z

    2b. What is the name of the electrical component used to measure the current in a circuit? [1]
    

    2c. Tick one answer to describe the bulb brightness (assuming both bulbs are identical). [1]

    A. equal brightness

    B. bulb 1 brightest

    C. bulb 2 brightest

    2d. What would happen to bulb 2 if bulb 1 went out? [1]

    Page 1 of 2
    Electricity

    3. Add to this diagram to show where you would place a


    voltmeter in order to measure the potential difference
    across the motor in this circuit. [2]

    4a. In each circuit shown below, the ammeter reading is zero; there is no current flowing.

    Explain why. [1]


    

    4b. Draw a circuit diagram containing the components from the circuits shown above, and include
    and ammeter to show the current will flow. [3]

    Learning Outcomes (tick if achieved)

    Q1 I can draw correct circuit symbols for common components.


    Q2 I can describe current in an electrical circuit.
    Q3 I know how to measure potential difference in a circuit.
    Q4 I can identify and draw a complete circuit diagram.

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    Electricity Answers
    1. Draw the correct symbol to represent each of the circuit components listed below. [4]

    a. cell b. lamp c. open switch d. ammeter

    Look at the circuit drawing. X

    2a. Describe the current at the points X, Y and Z on the circuit. [1]
    1
    The current is equal / the same at these points Y
    2

    2b. What is the name of the electrical component used to measure the current in a circuit? [1]
    Ammeter

    2c. Tick one answer to describe the bulb brightness (assuming both bulbs are identical). [1]

    A. equal brightness

    B. bulb 1 brightest

    C. bulb 2 brightest

    2d. What would happen to bulb 2 if bulb 1 went out? [1]

    It would also go out / wouldn’t work / circuit incomplete


    Electricity Answers

    3. Add to this diagram to show where you would place a


    voltmeter in order to measure the potential difference
    across the motor in this circuit. [2]

    1 mark for correct symbol used, 1 mark for V


    correct position (in parallel to motor)

    4a. In each circuit shown below, the ammeter reading is zero; there is no current flowing.

    Explain why. [1]


    They are incomplete circuits

    4b. Draw a circuit diagram containing the components from the circuits shown above, and include
    and ammeter to show the current will flow. [3]

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