Learning Introductory Physics with Activities

Relate the capacitance of a circuit to the stored charge and the electric potential difference.

Determine the energy stored in a capacitor.

Determine the equivalent capacitance of a circuit.

Identify the conditions for current to flow through circuit components.

Relate current to the flow of electric charge per unit time.

Draw and label basic and advanced circuit diagrams.

Treat batteries as sources of constant voltage rather than constant current.

Determine the amount of current flowing through a circuit with one or more resistors and a single battery, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Determine the amount of current flowing through a circuit with one or more resistors and more than one battery, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Determine the equivalent resistance of a circuit.

Determine the power and/or energy used by a resistor.

Use Kirchhoff’s Laws to quantify the behavior of a complicated circuit.

Describe the behavior of simple RC circuits qualitatively and quantitatively.