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

A solver's toolkit

To analyse a circuit usually means that you calculate all of the potential differences and currents from the cell potential...

Physics Narrative 14-16

Electrical Circuit
Electricity and Magnetism Supporting Physics Teaching

Voltage in series circuits

How do the ideas about voltage work with a circuit where there is more than one bulb? In this circuit, two identical bulbs are...

Physics Narrative 11-14

Electrical Circuit
Electricity and Magnetism Supporting Physics Teaching

Providing more routes

Adding more routes for the charge to take will result in an increased flow, so more current, as there will be less resistance...

Physics Narrative 14-16

Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Some students hold a 'consumer-source' model of the simple circuit

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Few students use the Voltage-Resistance-Current (VRI) model of a series circuit

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Few students can clearly distinguish the ideas of electric current and potential difference

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