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SUBJECT CODE: AMT 2114

SUBJECT DESCRIPTION: AIRCRAFT ELECTRICAL AND IGNITION SYSTEM
NAME: ____Luigi L Obina_____________________________________
SECTION: ____5821__________________________________

ACTIVITY 2 FOR MIDTERM:

Paper Assignment:

Give an example of the power source coming from Series circuits in aircraft as well as parallel
circuit and the combination of parallel and series circuit.

Series-Parallel DC Circuits

Overview
Most of the circuits that the technician will encounter will not be a simple series or parallel
circuit. Circuits are usually a combination of both, known as series-parallel circuits, which are
groups consisting of resistors in parallel and in series. An example of this type of circuit can be
seen in Figure 10-94. While the series-parallel circuit can initially appear to be complex, the
same rules that have been used for the series and parallel circuits can be applied to these
circuits.
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The voltage source will provide a current out to resistor R1, then to the group of resistors R2 and
R3 and then to the next resistor R4 before returning to the voltage source. The first step in the
simplification process is to isolate the group R2 and R3 and recognize that they are a parallel
network that can be reduced to an equivalent resistor. Using the formula for parallel resistance,

R23 = R2R3/R2 + R3

R2 and R3 can be reduced to R23. Figure 10-95 now shows an equivalent circuit with three
series connected resistors. The total resistance of the circuit can now be simply determined by
adding up the values of resistors R1, R23, and R4.
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