Electricity

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    • Two resistors in parallel have a lower total resistance compared to if they were in series
    • In a parallel circuit, components are connected on separate branches of wires to the energy source. The current through the battery is larger than the current through each of the individual branches.
    • Voltage in a parallel circuit is not split between branches
    • The combined resistance of two resistors in parallel is less than the resistance of either of the two resistors by themselves.
    • What are objects with no conducting path to earth called?
      Isolated
    • Electric field lines are drawn to display an electric field on a diagram. Each line shows the direction that a positively charged object would move at that point. The electric field lines around tiny positively charged and negatively charged objects are called ‘point charges'.
    • Which way do electric field lines point?
      The direction a positive charge would move in that field