Parallel Circuit 

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Contrived Photography demonstrating parallel circuits.

In these pictures, I used Christmas lights to demonstrate electricity and circuits. These pictures are a perfect example of how a parallel circuit can be seen in real life. A parallel circuit a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit and this can be seen in the pictures. First of we can tell this is a parallel circuit because throughout the circuit, all the lights have the same brightness in which voltage is equal throughout according to physics. Then In the first picture we see that all of the lights in the circuit are lighten throughout. But, this changes as we go to the second picture in which two of the lights are not lighting up. We can tell that it is a parallel circuit also because when one light is not lighting up it has no affect on the rest of the lights so they will continue to shine in the same manner. On the other hand, if one light stopped working and then all of the lights stop working then it would be a series circuit but this is not the case.