Skip to main content

Learning Introductory Physics with Activities

Section 10.7 Circuit Diagrams

Five circuit elements, from left to right: a wire (a straight line), a battery (two horizontal lines of different length), a light bulb (a circle around an ellipse), a junction (a horizontal line meeting a vertical line at the middle), and a switch (a diagonal line opposite an open circle).
Figure 10.7.2. Example circuit elements in circuit diagram notation.