Circuit Simulator Introduction
What is this?
The following is a simulator you can download to your laptops and use to build circuits. It allows you to experiment with setups which may be unsafe or hard to create due to equipment limitations in real life.
Getting the simulator?
Download the simulator from the link below to your desktop (or somewhere you can easily find it again). You will need to go into System Preferences and Security to allow non-apple certified files to be run.
What is this?
The following is a simulator you can download to your laptops and use to build circuits. It allows you to experiment with setups which may be unsafe or hard to create due to equipment limitations in real life.
Getting the simulator?
Download the simulator from the link below to your desktop (or somewhere you can easily find it again). You will need to go into System Preferences and Security to allow non-apple certified files to be run.
| circuit-construction-kit-dc_en.jar |
It's working, what next?
Listed below are a number of challenges, once you have completed a challenge take a screenshot of your solution. During this topic you MUST complete a minimum of 5 challenges. Save the screenshots in a google doc / word file which you are able upload to your Google Drive as evidence of this. Some challenges require answering questions as well as the screenshot.
Listed below are a number of challenges, once you have completed a challenge take a screenshot of your solution. During this topic you MUST complete a minimum of 5 challenges. Save the screenshots in a google doc / word file which you are able upload to your Google Drive as evidence of this. Some challenges require answering questions as well as the screenshot.
Circuit Simulator Challenges
1) Minimal circuits
Find a way to make a single light bulb light up with as FEW parts hooked up as possible. Take a screenshot of your solution and paste this in your document along with a sentence in your own words describing what was required to make the circuit work.
2) Conductivity
Make a table in your document showing the different objects available in the "grab bag". Test their conductivity - do they allow electrons to flow through them. Indicate in your table which are conductors and which are insulators. Do the results here agree with your results from the real life class experiment?
3) Lots of lights 1
Make a circuit using one battery and more then one bulb. Find a way to hook up the bulbs in a way that if you break the connection at one bulb, ALL the bulbs go out. Take a screenshot of your circuit and paste it in your document. Also beneath the screenshot answer this question: "Why did the rest of the bulbs go out if you broke the connection at one bulb?" Label your diagram "A series circuit"
4) Lots of lights 2
Make a circuit using one battery and more then one bulb. Find a way to hook up the bulbs in a way that if you break the connection at one bulb, ONLY that bulb goes out. Take a screenshot of your circuit and paste it in your document. Also beneath the screenshot answer this question: "Why did the rest of the bulbs stay lit when you broke the connection at one bulb?" Label your diagram "A parallel circuit"
5) Mood lighting
Make a circuit which has three bulbs lit, 2 of the same brightness and 1 which is brighter. Take a screenshot and paste it in.
6) Fire
Set your circuit on fire (in the simulator). Take a screenshot and explain in a sentence beneath this what you did that caused it to set alight. Also write one sentence explaining one thing we do to stop this happening in our homes.
7) Animal Cruelty
Can you set the puppy on fire? Screenshot.
8) Amps and volts
Set up 2 circuits in one screen. One with two bulbs in parallel and the other with two bulbs in series. Plug in voltmeters and ammeters to show the difference in voltage and current across the two bulbs in the two circuits.
9) Lots of bulbs
Make a circuit with one main on/off switch that will turn on/off 3 bulbs, each with a different brightness. Screenshot.
1) Minimal circuits
Find a way to make a single light bulb light up with as FEW parts hooked up as possible. Take a screenshot of your solution and paste this in your document along with a sentence in your own words describing what was required to make the circuit work.
2) Conductivity
Make a table in your document showing the different objects available in the "grab bag". Test their conductivity - do they allow electrons to flow through them. Indicate in your table which are conductors and which are insulators. Do the results here agree with your results from the real life class experiment?
3) Lots of lights 1
Make a circuit using one battery and more then one bulb. Find a way to hook up the bulbs in a way that if you break the connection at one bulb, ALL the bulbs go out. Take a screenshot of your circuit and paste it in your document. Also beneath the screenshot answer this question: "Why did the rest of the bulbs go out if you broke the connection at one bulb?" Label your diagram "A series circuit"
4) Lots of lights 2
Make a circuit using one battery and more then one bulb. Find a way to hook up the bulbs in a way that if you break the connection at one bulb, ONLY that bulb goes out. Take a screenshot of your circuit and paste it in your document. Also beneath the screenshot answer this question: "Why did the rest of the bulbs stay lit when you broke the connection at one bulb?" Label your diagram "A parallel circuit"
5) Mood lighting
Make a circuit which has three bulbs lit, 2 of the same brightness and 1 which is brighter. Take a screenshot and paste it in.
6) Fire
Set your circuit on fire (in the simulator). Take a screenshot and explain in a sentence beneath this what you did that caused it to set alight. Also write one sentence explaining one thing we do to stop this happening in our homes.
7) Animal Cruelty
Can you set the puppy on fire? Screenshot.
8) Amps and volts
Set up 2 circuits in one screen. One with two bulbs in parallel and the other with two bulbs in series. Plug in voltmeters and ammeters to show the difference in voltage and current across the two bulbs in the two circuits.
9) Lots of bulbs
Make a circuit with one main on/off switch that will turn on/off 3 bulbs, each with a different brightness. Screenshot.