Circuit Lab

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Resources

• 2020 Science Olympiad Test Packet - Contains the Div. C Circuit Lab test/key from the 2019 Science Olympiad National Tournament
• Official Science Olympiad Circuit Lab Kit from Ward's Science
• Example Graphs & Diagrams Template for Physics Events
• Practice Videos from Physics National Event Supervisors on YouTube's Science Olympiad TV page - look under Events 
• TryEngineering.org - a site powered by IEEE with a page for Circuit LabResources 
• Practice Power Points from Physics National Event Supervisors by topic/week:
  • 1 - Introduction, Terms, Ohm's Law
  • 2 - Static Electricity, Conductors, Inductors, Making Measurements
  • 3 - Kitchen Batteries, Series and Parallel Circuits
  • 4 - More Advanced Series and Parallel Circuits
  • 5 - Magnets, Voltage Dividers, Current Dividers
  • 6 - Electric Charge, Fields, Capacitors
  • 7 - Electromagnets and Motors
  • 8 - Motors and Sample Competition
  • 9 - Multiple Sources, Special notation, resistor marking
  • 10 - Kirchoff's Voltage/Current Laws, Wheatstone Bridges, Thevenin's Theorem, Norton's Theorem
  • 11 - Specialty Devices, Dependent Sources, Superposition and Troubleshooting
  • 12 - LEDs, Diodes and Operational Amplifiers
  • 13 - RC Circuits
  • 14 - PN Junctions 
  • 15 - Digital Logic
• 2019 Homework Generator
• 2019 Circuit/Bread Board Resistors
• Event Supervisors! Please review the Event Logistics Manual 

Links

• Electrical Network Wiki
• Magnetism Wiki
• Lessons in Electric Circuits
• Intro to Electricity - YouTube video
• Principles of Electricity - YouTube video
• Circuit Simulations
• Khan Academy - Physics