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ACT Aspire Science: Christmas Lights in Series or Parallel 1 Views


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If you do not want to spend lots of time checking holiday lights for the one bad bulb, which type of circuit do you want to have on hand?


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Yeah Oh okay C T shmoop er's last in this

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light bulb Siri's number five group If you do not

00:09

want to spend lots of time checking holiday lights for

00:11

that one bad ball Which type of circuit do you

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wantto have on hand Right Syriza's sport A long or

00:19

a short circuit That's a good one All right Well

00:21

with up parallel circuit Even if one bulb is out

00:24

the rest of the bulbs will still shine Right Think

00:26

about it like a parallel lane set on a freeway

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If one goes out while there's still room to squeeze

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through the other A burnt out holiday like in a

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Siri's searching so makes all the other good lights go

00:37

out And then we have to check every bulb individually

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because well our dad told us to and he's too

00:43

busy watching the game You know been there done that

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and then we get frustrated because we can't find the

00:48

bad ball because well there probably a few bad bulbs

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and then we throw the whole thing or at least

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the big string of them to the ground in a

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often And then we just kind of run out the

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door and there are sad This whole thing happens Yeah

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so that's it yet ends up in a miserable holiday

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Just was It always seems to be And you know

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why do we have Scrooge always around us breathing down

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our neck anyway So that's it The answer's a parallel 00:01:11.18 --> [endTime] circuits or the way to go

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