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Circuit Outage Diagram

View the image of a series and parallel circuit. The blue explosive symbol indicates that there was damage or an outage at this particular location in the circuits.

Have students explain how this outage would affect the current in these circuits.

Which circuit would still be able to function even with this damage?


 

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