All the exercises of the chapter, worked step by step, in the order they appear in the book: first the guided exercises within the text, then the end-of-chapter problems (numerical, conceptual, true/false, ranking, graphical, estimation).
Worked exercises in the text
- Worked exercise — mixed series-parallel network
- Worked exercise — two generators, two loops
- Worked exercise — three-branch circuit with two generators
- Worked exercise — series vs parallel total power
- Worked exercise — assigned powers on three parallel resistors
- Worked exercise — measurement with the Wheatstone bridge
- Worked exercise — infinite ladder R_A=1 R_B=3
- Worked exercise — infinite ladder R_A=2 R_B=4
- Worked exercise — resistor used as a heater
- Worked exercise — capacitor network
- Worked exercise — RC circuit charging
End-of-chapter problems
- resistance of a light bulb
- true or false on series and parallel
- resistance and power of an ohmic conductor
- series-parallel equivalent resistance
- internal resistance of an alkaline battery
- two batteries with Kirchhoff
- Wheatstone bridge, unknown resistance
- voltage drop in a copper cable
- resistance of an infinite ladder
- ranking the power of three light bulbs
- light bulbs in series and in parallel
- two batteries in parallel
- ranking batteries in series
- capacity of an AA battery
- reading Ohm’s law from a graph
- three light bulbs A, B, C
- characteristic of a real battery
- capacitor network
- which graph for an RC circuit
- boiling time of a kettle
- current and power on a resistor
- three resistances in series and parallel
- two resistances in parallel
- Christmas lights in series
- ranking three lamp configurations
- true or false on resistive circuits
- charging of an RC capacitor
- energy of a laptop computer
- the circuit breaker that trips
- torch bulb
- resistors in series
- resistors in parallel
- current as a flow
- light bulbs in series or in parallel
- short circuit
- same voltage, different resistances
- series chain with different light bulbs
- heating resistor
- V-I characteristic
- room-temperature superconductor
- network with tenfold voltage
- Kirchhoff with two loops
- fuses and the Joule effect
- long wires and thick wires
- discharge of a capacitor
- electric boiler
- AA battery for an LED torch
- balanced Wheatstone bridge
- heated copper wire
- burnt-out bulb in series
- chains of light bulbs
- under-powered heater
- copper with zero resistivity
- voltage divider
- self-discharge of a battery
- internal resistance of a battery