In the pat few weeks we have been working on electricity and circuits. In class we learned that there were two types of circuits, parallel and series. We learned that our homes were wired to have parallel circuits. Parallel circuits enabled the household to be able to power everything at the same amount of watts. Unlike a series where the resistors share the power. So what we did was we had a take home lab to complete over the super bowl weekend. it was to find common things around our house or dorm that used electricity. We then took a look at the label and calculated how much amps watts and ohlms each resistor took. We were then given a challenge to see how much money we could save by saving electricity. We were suppose to ask our parents to keep the change for the first month. Since I live int he dorm I did not but did try to save some electricity.
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