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Originally Posted by Princesspower  Sarah raised her hand, "how about a resistor, to use as a dimmer?" she asked. She knew all this from science and all. She thought having one in a room was necessary when sharing a bedroom when it came to compromising. Like if one wanted the lights on and the other wanted the lights off they could dim the lights mid way so that both would be happy. "For a simple circuit, a resistor isn't really required, no." Hadley said, shaking her head dismissively. Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazinga Minerva listened still a bit confused as to why they were talking about all of this until Professor Hadley said they would be making a circuit. Well this sounded kind of cool. Maybe it would be a little more interesting now. As she asked the questions Min put her hand up of course thinking of mental wires, but as she held her hand up someone had taken her answer so she put it back down.
Two items were still missing well Duh couldn't have a circuit without an end product, right? She put her hand back up, "Professor we need an actual light bulb to see if it's going to work. Without the end product we will never know if it actually did anything." Minerva put her hand down yes she was being captain obvious, but wasn't that one of the missing materials. Quote:
Originally Posted by hpfan18 I guess they will be learning about electricity today. That is somewhat cool in Kace's opinion. But he wasn't really fascinated with it, i mean unless he wanted to be an electrician. But he heard the student's answers and they did make sense.
He was gonna answer but then Minnie took the words right out of his mouth. "Professor i agree with Minnie, you will need a light-bub to figure out if the circuit is working or not." OH FINALLY! The most obvious thing, Hadley would have thought. Other than batteries of course. "Yes! A light bulb! Very good!" She added that to the list. Quote:
Originally Posted by hermionesclone Scribble... scribble... scribble...
Batteries, light switch, wires, resistor and a light bulb. ALL used for a simple circuit. Yeah. This lesson DID sound a lot like science lessons. And science was very close to maths. Maths was the Muggle form of Arithmancy, essentially. And Hadley taught Arithmancy before. See, it ALL linked back to the same point again. Nodnod.
As for her question, he had no idea what else was used for a simple circuit. Sometimes power packs were used for the slightly larger/bigger circuits, right? The ones that were going to light more than one bulb and were probably parallel? Yeah. Maybe.
But now he had a small question regarding the whole light bulbs thing. "Professor?" he started, raising his hand in the air, "Can buzzers be used in some simple circuits?" Because he had a faint memory of being shown a circuit that had used a buzzer at some point. Or maybe it was just the idea that some things used electricity and circuits but they made a sound instead of -- or in some cases, as well as -- producing a light. Hadley paused, stunned by the next suggestion. "I suppose that buzzers could be used, in lieu of the light bulb. Light bulb is the most common and easiest to visualize though. But a buzzer, you could hear if it works or doesn't. I think I might have a buzzer in my supply box, if you wanted to try building your circuit with that instead?" You know, just for educational purposes. See what happens and all. Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir Tobias raised his hand again, because he wasn't sure if anyone else had said the thing he'd thought of. He was, once again, tempted to mention those crocodile clips, but decided that they were more likely to be used by little kids. SO he had his other idea instead.
"What about like... wire strippers. You can use them to cut through the plastic-y rubbery insulator-y bit around the copper wire and pull it off, but they don't necessarily cut through the wire. Just 'cause you need to get the right length of wire to connect and like... wrap around the stuff in the circuit so it all flows."
Aw yis. Concentrating in primary science because there was shiny stuff and potential danger was turning out to be a good move.
Kudos 7 year old Toby. Checking her paper when she heard Tobias' suggestion, she frowned a moment and then nodded. "Yes. Actually that would probably work better and be safer to use than scissors. There is a special kind of scissors called a wire stripper, as Tobias said, which will pull off the ends of the insulation. Excellent!" She paused. "And actually, certain wire strippers, actually have spots on them where you can cut the wire, if you needed to." Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo Good merlin what were they on about now? Wires and circuits and--...hang on...they were MAKING curcuits?? Essentially they were going to be playing with electricity like that time at the seminar on safety...looking back she could see the irony in the whole thing, considering she'd nearly lost her hand. No regrets though and it was only a pity she'd never gotten to keep at least one of them. Too many buzzer haters apparently.
Lex felt this was the moment to raise her hand and say she had absolutely no idea what went into circuit making but others were giving legit things so she'd kinda look bad.
"Would electrical tape be used?" She remembered her father getting some once while they were out shopping and asked what it was for. Based on his explanation she got the idea that maybe it would come in handy now? She didn't KNOW. They may have lived among them but they were certainly nothing like them. When her father wanted something fixed he only needed to get his wand.
"You'll also need willing volunteers to build and test." Not everyone would trust muggle stuff to not be shoddy. You just never knew sometimes. "Yes! The final item! Perfect! You need a special kind of tape called electrical tape!" Hadley beamed at the fourth year.
But then, what? What was that last thing she suggested? "Willing volunteers? Ha. You're all going to build one today, well in groups of two of three." Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Laura raised her hand. "Professor you would need a bulb holder to put the bulb into." Laura had to agree with Minnie on that one, it was alright having a bulb but if you didn't have one that could light up then how would you know if it was working or not. Oh whoops. She forgot that part. "Yes, the bulb needs a socket holder. Very good!"
"Okay, work in groups of two or three." Hadley said, as she passed several sets of the materials onto each tables. "Tread carefully, as you do this. This isn't a race and if you're not carefully, you can poke yourself or injure yourself on the wire. Plus the lightbulbs are fragile. Instructions are on the board." With that, she flicked her wand a set of the procedure steps appeared to the right side of the materials list.
ooc: take your time; aka, don't do it all in one post (considering you're working with partners/groups). ask questions if you have to. help each other out. you have about 24 hours for this activity before we start some observation of your circuit. YES, Alec Summers, you have a buzzer instead of a light, along with whoever you're working with...
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