Electrical Circuit
Electricity and Magnetism

Kitset of the main ideas in the topic Electric Circuits

Teaching Guidance for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

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Electrical Circuit
Electricity and Magnetism Supporting Physics Teaching

Voltage and compound quantities

As these new ideas about voltage are first introduced, it is helpful if sometimes you refer to volt and sometimes joule per...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Electrical Circuit
Electricity and Magnetism Supporting Physics Teaching

Model precise terminology

In everyday speech the word electricity is very commonly used. Thus you might overhear statements such as:

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Electrical Circuit
Electricity and Magnetism Supporting Physics Teaching

A simple loop: current the same everywhere

Electric currents do not get used up. In a simple circuit with one battery and one bulb, the size of the electric current is...

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Electricity and Magnetism Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Many pupils cannot identify reliably when two different circuit diagrams are/are not showing the same circuit.

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Many pupils predict incorrectly that two resistors in parallel will have a larger resistance than each resistor alone.

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Among lower secondary pupils, many are slow to adopt the idea of magnetic poles and only gradually come to see magnetic effects in terms of attraction of unlike poles and repulsion of like poles.

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