Homework Practice Problems on Currents and Circuits | PHYS 204, Lab Reports of Physics

Download Homework Practice Problems on Currents and Circuits | PHYS 204 and more Lab Reports Physics in PDF only on Docsity! Name: Lab Partners: Date: Homework Fundamentals of Circuits II: Currents & Circuits 1. Which of the three circuits shown below, if any, are the same electrically? Which are different? Explain your answers. (a) + − (b) + − (c) + − 2. If a battery were connected to each of the resistor networks shown below, for which network would the current through the battery be smallest? For which would it be largest? Assume all of the resistors below have the same resistance. Explain your reasoning. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) 3. Rank the resistor networks of question 2 in order from largest resistance to smallest PHYS-204: Physics II Laboratory 1 Fundamentals of Circuits II: Currents & Circuits v 0.1 resistance. Explain your reasoning. 4. Consider the two messy circuit diagrams #1 and #2 below. #1 − + #2 + − (a) Identify which of the neat circuit diagrams (A, B, C or D) corresponds to circuit #1. Explain the reasons for your answer. A + − B + − C + − D + − (b) Which circuit diagram (A, B, C or D) corresponds to circuit #2. Explain the reasons for your answer. 5. Three of the circuits drawn below are electrically equivalent, and one is not. PHYS-204: Physics II Laboratory 2