Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Rc in Ac Lab
This lab was designed to help students understand the difference between circuits powered by DC and circuits powered by AC. Students can see that simple changes in frequency lead to changes in the potential difference across the...
eSchool Today
E School Today: Electricity
Explore current electricity and different types of electric circuits.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get Charged!
Students are introduced to the idea of electrical energy. They learn about the relationships between charge, voltage, current and resistance. They discover that electrical energy is the form of energy that powers most of their household...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Force Electric in a Triangle
Students must find the net force on one of the charges in a triangular arrangement of charges.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Force Electric in a Box
Students must find the net force on one of the charges in a rectangular arrangement of charges.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix Series: Electrolytes and Nonelectrolytes
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this interactive activity, change the amount of electrolytes and observe the effect it has on the electrical current to simulate the body's similar function. After the activity, answer one...
Concord Consortium
Mobile Inquiry Technology: Decaying Batteries
This investigation has students investigating and measuring the decay of batteries as their electric charges are used up in circuits.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Measuring Voltage in Series Parallel Circuits
Measuring voltage drops across resistances in series-parallel circuits requires an understanding of both series and parallel circuit behavior. Learn more with this tutorial.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Measuring Voltage in Series Circuits
Measuring the voltage in a circuit is like measuring the drop in pressure across two points. Learn more with this tutorial.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Electricity (Intermediate)
Explore how electricity works in this module. (Requires Java)
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Electricity
How does electrical energy get from one place to another? Explore how electricity is moved around and transformed into other forms of energy. (Requires Java)
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Measuring Ac Circuits With a Dmm
Find out how the SPARKS DMM can measure AC voltage and current.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Dc Circuits: Parallel Resistances (Sparks 2)
Explore circuits with resistors in parallel and answer questions regarding voltage drops across resistors and currents through them in such circuits.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Dc Circuits: Series Resistances (Sparks 1)
This interactive simulation guides you through the wiring of the standard breadboard and presents you with questions regarding voltage drops and currents in series resistive circuits.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Measuring Current on a Breadboard
Find out how measuring current in a circuit is like measuring the flow rate of water in a sprinkler system.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Measuring Voltage on a Breadboard
Find out how measuring voltage in a circuit is like measuring the pressure in a water pipe.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Finding Resistance With Ohm's Law
Find out how to determine resistance using Ohm's Law.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Finding Voltage With Ohm's Law
Use this tutorial to find the voltage in an electrical current with Ohm's Law.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Finding Current With Ohm's Law
Learn how to measure the electrical current using Ohm's Law.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Total Resistance for Resistors in Series
Use the tutorial to find the total resistance for resistors in a series circuit.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: How Do Breadboards Work?
See how a breadboard electrical circuit works.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Troubleshooting Dc Circuits (Sparks 4)
Discover a sequence of all-resistor DC circuits in which one of the resistors is either open or short-circuited.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Dc Circuits: Series Parallel Resistances (Sparks 3)
Answer questions regarding voltage drops across resistors and currents through them in such circuits. Practice calculating the effective resistances of a set of resistances in series and parallel.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Calculating Voltage in Series Circuits
See how Ohm's Law can tell us that the voltage across resistors will depend on that current value I and each R-value.