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The document provides an overview of circuit design, explaining the definitions and characteristics of circuits, circuit diagrams, series circuits, parallel circuits, and combination circuits. It emphasizes the importance of understanding how current flows in different configurations and includes instructions for creating and sketching various types of circuits. The presentation is intended for use with a specific project related to circuit design.

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Circuit Design presentation

The document provides an overview of circuit design, explaining the definitions and characteristics of circuits, circuit diagrams, series circuits, parallel circuits, and combination circuits. It emphasizes the importance of understanding how current flows in different configurations and includes instructions for creating and sketching various types of circuits. The presentation is intended for use with a specific project related to circuit design.

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Circuit Design

Circuit Design
• What Is a Circuit?
• Circuit Diagrams
• Series Circuits
• Parallel Circuits
• Combination Circuits

This presentation is intended to be used with Project 4.2.1 Circuit Design.


What Is a Circuit?
A system of conductors and components forming a
complete path for an electric current

If the path is broken anywhere in the circuit, current stops flowing.

How many ways could the path be broken in the image below?
Circuit Diagrams
•A drawing that traces the path that electron flow will take in
an electronic circuit
•Electronic components and functions are represented by
symbols.

Draw a map from the school to your house or some other


destination.

•How did you draw roads, buildings, the school?

•What other symbols did you create?

In an electronic circuit diagram, the roads are like wires.


The buildings, houses, etc. are like components.
Circuit Diagrams
•A drawing that traces the path that electron
flow will take in an electronic circuit
•Electronic components and functions are
represented by symbols.

Lamp Switch

Battery
Series Circuits
A circuit that contains only one path for current flow
If a component is removed, the path is opened and
current cannot flow to any components.
Series Circuits
A circuit that contains only one path for current flow
If the path is open anywhere in the circuit, current
stops flowing to all components.
Series Circuits
A circuit that contains only one path for current flow
Build a series circuit which contains to lamps
Sketch the circuit in your engineering notebook and trace the path that the
electrons take in the circuit.
Sketch a schematic diagram of this circuit in your engineering notebook.
Parallel Circuits
A circuit that contains more than one path for current flow
If a component is removed, then it is possible for
the current to take another path to reach other
components.
Parallel Circuits
A circuit that contains more than one path for current flow
Create a parallel circuit utilizing the board with two paths to two lights.
Sketch the solution in your engineering notebook and trace paths of the
circuit.
Sketch a schematic diagram of this circuit in your engineering notebook.
Combination Circuits
Contain both series and parallel arrangements

What would happen if you removed light 1? light 2? light 3?


Create a combination circuit utilizing the board, then sketch
the circuit diagram in your engineering notebook.

2 3
Combination Circuits
Contain both series and parallel arrangements
Image Resources
Microsoft, Inc. (2008). Clip Art. Retrieved November 20, 2008, from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx

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