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The document contains 8 practice problems about electric circuits involving calculations of current, potential difference, and resistor values in series and parallel circuits. The problems include determining unknown resistor values given current, calculating current and potential difference across components in series and parallel circuits, measuring values using voltmeters and ammeters, and combining resistances in series and parallel.

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Circuits

The document contains 8 practice problems about electric circuits involving calculations of current, potential difference, and resistor values in series and parallel circuits. The problems include determining unknown resistor values given current, calculating current and potential difference across components in series and parallel circuits, measuring values using voltmeters and ammeters, and combining resistances in series and parallel.

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ELECTRIC CIRCUITS WORKSHEET

1. A circuit consists of a 12 V battery connected across a single resistor. If the current in the circuit is 3 A, calculate the
size of the resistor.(4 W)

2. Two 5 W resistors are connected in series with a 12 V battery. Determine: (a) the potential difference across each
resistor; and (b) the current flowing in the circuit. (6 V, 1.2 A)

3. Two resistors of size 10 W and 5 W are connected in parallel as shown below.

a. If 3.6 A of current flows into the parallel branch, determine the current flowing in each of the resistors.
(2.4 A in the top resistor & 1.2 A in the bottom resistor)

b. What is the potential difference across each of the resistors? (12 V)

c. How much current will flow out of the parallel branch? (3.6 A)

4. Consider the following circuit and then answer the questions below.

a. State the potential difference between X and Z.

b. State the potential difference between X and Y.

c. State the potential difference between Y and Z.

(Answers: (a) 12 V, (b) 8 V, (c) 4 V)

5. The circuit below shows a resistor, R, connected in series to a 12 V battery across an open switch,

a. If R = 6 W, how much current flows in the circuit with the switch open?

b. While the switch remains open, determine the potential difference between:

i. A and B

ii.A and C

iii. B and C

c. When the switch is closed and R = 6W, determine:

i. The current in the circuit.

ii. The potential difference between A and B.

iii. The potential difference between B and C.

Answers: (a) 0 A / (b)(i) 12 V, (ii) 12 V, (iii) 0 V / (c)(i) 2 A, (ii) 0 V, (iii) 12 V


6. Find the current in the 20 W and 5 W resistors in the following circuit.

(Answers: I20 = 0.045 A and I5 = 0.18 A)

7. In the circuit below, the reading on the ammeter is 3.2 A.

Determine:

a. The reading on the voltmeter.

b. The potential difference across the 40 W resistor.

c. The current in the 40 W resistor.

(Answers: (a) 32 V, (b) 18 V, (c) 0.45 A)

8.

For the circuit above:

a. Determine the total resistance.

b. Find the reading on the ammeter.

c. Draw a voltmeter in the correct place to measure the potential difference across the 0.3 W resistor.

d. Draw an ammeter in the correct place to measure the current in the 0.3 W resistor.

e. Determine the readings on the meters mentioned in parts (c) and (d) above.

(Answers: (a) 100.19 W, (b) 0.2 A, (c) voltmeter in parallel across the resistor, (d) ammeter in series with the resistor, (e)
ammeter reading = 0.125 A and voltmeter reading = 0.0375 V)

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