An electric current is composed of components through which electric charges may flow.

Such
components include resistors and capacitors, each not taking into account the circuits with a constant
magnitude or steady currents. A type of electric circuit that holds the component that serves as a reservoir
of energy in a current carrying circuit is called a DC or direct current circuit (Stanford & Tanner, 2014).
Charges in this circuit moves through constantly in the same sense through time as long as the necessary
components, emf (electromotive force) and resistors, are steadily present (Lerner, 1997). The
electromotive force is not actually a force but is a potential difference or voltage developed by any source
of electrical energy. As detailed by Stanford and Tanner, an emf possesses two physical characteristics
that define its role in an electric circuit. First it maintains a constant potential difference across itself and
it also deposits energy just like a reservoir in a circuit.
Resistor containing circuits such as the DC circuit have different possible arrangements.
Connected resistances in series have a total potential difference that is equivalent to the summation of the
resulting potential differences of the individual resistances involved. On the contrary, the applied potential
difference across the combination of resistances in parallel is just similar to the resulting potential
difference across the each resistances (Halliday, Resnick and Walker, 1994). Meanwhile, series parallel
circuits consist both series and parallel elements consisting of at least three resistors and depend on the
effective resistance of the parallel portion and on the other resistances (Spellman, 2013).
The objective of the experiment is to differentiate how voltages and currents are distributed in the
resistor circuits according to Ohms law connected in series, parallel and series parallel.

References:
Halliday, D., Resnick R., & Walker J. (1994). Fundamentals of Physics, Fourth Edition. New Delhi: John
Wiley & Sons, p. 794, 799.
Lerner, L.S. (1997). Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 2. Massachusetts, USA: Jones &
Bartlett Learning, p. 742.
Spellman, F.R. (2013). Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations, Third Edition.
USA: CRC Press, p. 365.
Stanford A.L. & Tanner J.M. (2014). Physics for Students of Science and Engineering. San Diego, CA:
Academic Press, p. 424.