Lighting Up Summer

🧪🔋One lazy summer afternoon, Mary wandered into the garage and found one of her favorite treasures: a dry cell battery from her dad’s hardware store.

With two wires (one red, one white), a couple of light bulb stands, two small incandescent bulbs, and two switches, she decided to try something bright.

She connected one wire from the battery to a lightbulb stand, then added the switch between the bulb and the other end of the battery.

Click! 💡 The light came on. Click! The light went off.

Success! She had built a simple series circuit—where everything is connected in a single loop.

Then Mary got curious…“What happens if I try a parallel circuit?” 🤔

She rearranged her setup so that two bulbs shared the same battery but had their own separate paths. Now, even if one bulb was unscrewed, the other stayed lit! Parallel circuits keep the current flowing even if one path is interrupted.

Mary grinned. “Electricity is kind of awesome,” she thought.And just like that, boredom turned into discovery. 🌟