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Physics 12 Worksheet Circuitry KEY

This document is a physics worksheet on current electricity and circuitry containing 9 multiple choice and short answer questions about series and parallel circuits involving batteries, resistors, ammeters, and voltmeters. The questions calculate values like current, resistance, power, and temperature based on given circuit diagrams and measurements.

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Physics 12 Worksheet Circuitry KEY

This document is a physics worksheet on current electricity and circuitry containing 9 multiple choice and short answer questions about series and parallel circuits involving batteries, resistors, ammeters, and voltmeters. The questions calculate values like current, resistance, power, and temperature based on given circuit diagrams and measurements.

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Physics 12 Worksheet

Current Electricity & Circuitry

Physicist:

KEY

1. The current through a lightbulb connected across the terminals of a 125-V outlet is 0.50 A. At what
rate does the bulb convert electric energy to light? (Assume 100 percent efficiency.)

2. An automobile panel lamp with a resistance of 33 is placed across a 12-V battery. What is the
current through the circuit?

3. A 75-W lamp is connected to 125 V.


a. What is the current through the lamp?

b. What is the resistance of the lamp?

4. Draw a circuit diagram to include a 60.0-V battery, an ammeter, and a resistance of 12.5-
resistor in series. Indicate the ammeter reading and the direction of the current.

5. Draw a series-circuit diagram showing a 4.5-V battery, a resistor, and an ammeter that reads 85
mA. Determine the resistance and label the resistor. Choose a direction for the conventional current
and indicate the positive terminal of the battery. Add a voltmeter to measure the potential difference
across the resistor.

6. A circuit has 12 of resistance and is connected to a 12-V battery. Determine the change in power
if the resistance decreases to 9.0 .

7. For the figure below, the voltmeter reads 70.0 V.

a. Which resistor is the hottest?


50. Since P = I2R and I is constant in a series circuit, the largest value of resistance will
produce the most power.
b. What will the ammeter read?

c. Find the total resistance of the circuit.

8. For the figure below, the battery develops 110 V.

a. Which resistor is the coolest?


50.0 . Since P = V2/R and V is constant in a parallel circuit, the largest resistor will
dissipate the least power.
b. Find the total resistance of the circuit.

c. What will ammeter 1 read?

d. Show that the current through all parallel branches equals the answer in c).

9. Refer to the figure below to answer the following questions.

a. Determine the total resistance.

b. Determine the current through the 25- resistor.

c. Which resistor is the hottest? Coolest?

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