Voltage and Current

1. How many different currents could you measure in this circuit? Make a prediction, and then try it.

What do you notice? How does this make sense in terms of the roller coaster metaphor introduced in discussion question 3.3A?

What is being used up in the resistor?

2. By connecting probes to these points, how many ways could you measure a voltage? How many of them would be different numbers? Make a prediction, and then do it.

What do you notice? Interpret this using the roller coaster metaphor, and color in parts of the circuit that represent constant voltages.

3. The resistors are unequal. How many different voltages and currents can you measure? Make a prediction, and then try it.

What do you notice? Interpret this using the roller coaster metaphor, and color in parts of the circuit that represent constant voltages.