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How does resistor affect brightness?
Variable resistors in series change both voltage and current When the resistance is low the bulb is bright. But there’s another effect: the variable resistor takes a bigger and bigger share of the battery voltage so the bulb takes a smaller and smaller share. So the bulb gets dimmer for two reasons.
How does resistance affect brightness in parallel?
When the bulbs are in parallel, each bulb sees the full voltage V so P=V2R. Since a bulb glows brighter when it gets more power the ones in parallel will glow brighter. See, the parallel combination of resistors reduces the effective resistance of the circuit.
How will the brightness of the bulb be affected if two resistors are connected in series?
Series resistors add, and to calculate parallel ones, you add the reciprocal of each resistance together, then take the reciprocal of that. If the resistors are light bulbs then (with a fixed voltage source) they will get dimmer when put in series and stay the same brightness when put in parallel.
Do parallel or series circuits have brighter bulbs?
Two light bulbs on the same series circuit share the voltage of the battery: if the battery is 9V, then each bulb gets 4.5 volts. Two bulbs in a simple parallel circuit each enjoy the full voltage of the battery. This is why the bulbs in the parallel circuit will be brighter than those in the series circuit.
Which bulb will glow brighter series or parallel?
Increasing the number of bulbs in a series circuit decreases the brightness of the bulbs. Bulbs in parallel are brighter than bulbs in series. In a parallel circuit the voltage for each bulb is the same as the voltage in the circuit.
Do bulbs in parallel have the same brightness?
Bulbs in parallel are brighter than bulbs in series. In a parallel circuit the voltage for each bulb is the same as the voltage in the circuit. Unscrewing one bulb has no effect on the other bulb.
What is brighter a series or parallel circuit?
Increasing the number of bulbs in a series circuit decreases the brightness of the bulbs. Bulbs in parallel are brighter than bulbs in series. In a parallel circuit the voltage for each bulb is the same as the voltage in the circuit. Unscrewing one bulb has no effect on the other bulb.
How does successive addition of resistors affect the brightness?
It is clear from observing the indicator bulbs in the above diagrams that the addition of more resistors causes the indicator bulb to get brighter. For parallel circuits, as the number of resistors increases, the overall current also increases.
Why does a parallel circuit have brighter bulbs?
What happens to the brightness of a bulb in a parallel circuit when more bulbs are added?
In a parallel circuit the current goes through separate branches. If another branch is added with another bulb, the current has an additional path to take. But, the battery (or generator) produces a constant voltage, so the current through the original bulbs does not change, and neither does their brightness.