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4. Controlling Electricity (Passive Components)

Jennifer Fox1  
(1)
Seattle, WA, USA
 

Resistance: Limiting Electricity

You’ve used the power of electricity to turn on individual circuit components like LEDs and motors, hooray! But how do we control how much electricity goes into these parts?? One way to do this is with resistors! Resistors limit, or resist (oh, hey!), the flow of electricity.

The best (and most fun) way to learn is to do! That means we’ll start learning about resistors by building a circuit. Well… technically three circuits, but most of the circuit stays the same.

A quick ...

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