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Unit 11: Electric Circuits

Compound Direct Current Circuits

Reduce series and parallel resistor networks, account for a battery's internal resistance, and predict how ammeters and voltmeters affect a circuit.

Topic 11.5 · 12 min read

This lesson comes with the AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Series and parallel are about charge paths
  2. 02Equivalent resistance
  3. 03Real batteries and real wires
  4. 04Measuring current and potential difference
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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