Intro to Circuits(Update)

This is the first class after our first " Celebration". And it is what i always wanted to learn. This is an introduction to Electric Charges

Here is the first thing that we will learn about in circuits. How to make a circuit is what we are showing here. Mason showed us a little movie about engineers that could not make a circuit with one battery, one wire, and one light bulb. 

This is a little schematic oh what were were doing with the light bulb. Did not use the correct symbols in this one but this will have to do for now. We also drew pictures that what not to do when trying to connect a battery to a light bulb.  

We where playing around seeing how bright the light bulb can become by using four batteries. It did not seem like it got any brighter then it was when it was only two batteries.

This is a colorful picture of what works and does not work in lighting up a battery. This proves that we are not MIT students or Harvard students which ever you prefer to not be.

There is a simple idea of how a battery worked. It is not what actually happen because energy flows from the negative side. This does help to imagine what happens.

Here we looked at what the current throw the wire would be. I did not think they would all be the same current but they are.

Here we are measuring the current of the on the wire when on a switch. Here we could not get any correct data but it was fun.

This was a calculation that show us the current that would go through a copper wire. It might look difficult but it is very simple when you have the equation.

Here was a calculation of finding the volts of the copper wire and the resistance of the wire.

This was just an exercise where we were asked to figure out with wire had the most resistance. We were given the density area and can other constant for the particular metal and then had to calculate the resistance of both. The fundamental equation was V=IR but we did directly  use this equation.

 These are a couple of pictures the summarized what we learned in that class day.