Series and Parallel Circuits

• In a series circuit, it is a single loop end to end. One component of the circuit being removed can affect the rest of the circuit.
• A parallel circuit has more than one loop, and if one of the loops is broken, the circuit is still complete.
• In a series circuit, the voltage is shared between components, and the voltage of each component adds up to the total voltage
• In series circuits, current is the same everywhere and the same current passes through the whole of the circuit, and is based on the voltage and resistance of the circuit
• In a series circuit, the total resistance is just the sum of the resistance of the resistors in the circuit. If the resistors are identical, voltage is evenly spread across the resistors
• In a parallel circuit, the voltage is the same across each component.
• In a parallel circuit, the total current is the sum of the currents in each branch.
• In parallel circuits, total resistance decreases as the number of resistors parallel to eachother increases