Question

In the basement or on the side of your house you will usually have a collection of either circuit breakers or fuses. Each breaker or fuse is responsible for a particular circuit in your house. For instance, you may have one breaker in your house responsible for the kitchen circuit - all appliances in the kitchen will be in this circuit. When you turn on more and more appliances in the kitchen more current passes through the breaker – if too much current passes through the breaker or fuse the circuit is broken.

In the basement or on the side of your house you will usually have a collection of either circuit breakers or fuses. Each breaker or fuse is responsible for a particular circuit in your house. For instance, you may have one breaker in your house responsible for the kitchen circuit - all appliances in the kitchen will be in this circuit. When you turn on more and more appliances in the kitchen more current passes through the breaker – if too much current passes through the breaker or fuse the circuit is broken.

Given that the current in a household circuit increases with each light or appliance you turn on, is your circuit a parallel circuit or a series circuit?

choose: parallel or series (which one is the correct choice)

Answer 1

The circuit is a parallel circuit because in parallel circuit tripping of one circuit breaker will effect the appliances in that circuit only

Also , in parallel circuit with addition of a light bulb the current will increase since voltage is same for all the appliances and current through the newly added appliance will now be added

Series circuit have a disadvantage that even if one circuit breaker of fuse fails the whole appliances will turn off so it is not used in homes