Currents & Circuits (22.1)
Electric Current
The flow of charged particles
Conventional Current
The direction in which a positive test charge moves
Battery
Several galvanic cells connected together
Electric Circuit
Any closed loop or conducting path allowing electric charges to flow
Ampere
The flow of electric charge equal to one coulomb per second
Resistence
The measure of how strongly an object or a material impedes a current produced by a voltage
Resistor
The device designed to have a specific resistance
Parallel Circuit
Any time the current has two or more paths to follow in a circuit
Series Connection
A connection with only one current path in a circuit
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