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Battery-Resistor Circuit
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Look inside a resistor to see how it works. Increase the battery voltage to make more electrons flow though the resistor. Increase the resistance to block the flow of electrons. Watch the current and resistor temperature change.
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Teaching Resources
Main Topics
- Resistor
- Voltage
- Batteries
- Electrons
Sample Learning Goals
- Are the blue spheres moving through the circuit positive or negative charges? How can you tell?
- What happens when you increase the resistance of the resistor? How does the current through the circuit, the speed of the blue spheres, the voltage across the battery, the temperature of the resistor, and the green particles in the resistor change? Why (or why not) does each of these change as they do?
- What happens when you increase the voltage across the battery? How does the current through the circuit, the speed ofthe blue spheres, the resistance of the resistor, the temperature of the resistor, and the green particles in the resistor change? Why (or why not) does each of these change as they do?
Teaching Ideas
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Basic Electricity: short inquiry activities includes ideas for several sims
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Trish Loeblein | HS UG-Intro MS |
CQs Lab HW |
7/29/12 |
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Visualization and Visual Illusions SIM Homework
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Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman | UG-Intro | HW | 1/9/11 |
| Visualizing Resistance | Laura Gislason | HS | Lab | 12/6/12 |
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Battery-Resistor Circuit Simulation Homework III
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Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman | HS UG-Intro |
HW | 1/8/11 |
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Battery-Resistor Circuit Simulation Homework II
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Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman | UG-Intro HS |
HW | 1/8/11 |
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Battery-Resistor Circuit Simulation Homework
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Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman | HS UG-Intro |
HW | 1/9/11 |
| Batteries, Resistance and Current | Emily Haynes | HS | Lab | 3/31/08 |
| Visualizing Current, Voltage and Resistance | Stephan Graham | HS | Lab | 5/3/07 |
| Puissance electrique | Bernard Lacour | Other | Lab | 12/23/10 |
| Električna struja osmi razred | Vladan Mladenovic | MS K-5 |
CQs HW Demo |
8/9/11 |
You can submit your own ideas and activities.
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Microsoft Windows
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OS 10.5 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later |
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
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