ACT Aspire Science: Christmas Lights in Series or Parallel
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If you do not want to spend lots of time checking holiday lights for the one bad bulb, which type of circuit do you want to have on hand?
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a short circuit That's a good one All right Well
with up parallel circuit Even if one bulb is out
the rest of the bulbs will still shine Right Think
about it like a parallel lane set on a freeway
If one goes out while there's still room to squeeze
through the other A burnt out holiday like in a
Siri's searching so makes all the other good lights go
out And then we have to check every bulb individually
because well our dad told us to and he's too
busy watching the game You know been there done that
and then we get frustrated because we can't find the
bad ball because well there probably a few bad bulbs
and then we throw the whole thing or at least
the big string of them to the ground in a
often And then we just kind of run out the
door and there are sad This whole thing happens Yeah
so that's it yet ends up in a miserable holiday
Just was It always seems to be And you know
why do we have Scrooge always around us breathing down
our neck anyway So that's it The answer's a parallel 00:01:11.18 --> [endTime] circuits or the way to go