Exercise 3: Kirchoffs Voltage Law

Kirchoffs Voltage Law is a simple statement of potential: traveling around a circuit and
returning to the same point, through any path, must bring you back to the same potential.
In our simple circuits, this means that the sum of the voltage drops across each load is
eual to the voltage applied to the circuit.
Create the following circuit on your breadboard:
Questions:
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resistance to the total resistance: e.g.,
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*. +rom a previous e,ercise, you know that the current is constant throughout this circuit.
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.. If the total resistance is the sum of the resistance loads placed in series, verify that
/hms law holds for this circuit. )how your calculations.
0/12: 1he equivalent resistance in series will always be greater than any of the
individual resistances.