🔍 Key Concepts

• Series circuit behavior – how components are connected end‑to‑end in one single path • Current vs. voltage in series – what happens to each as they pass through multiple components • Ohm’s Law (V = I × R) and how total resistance and total voltage relate in a series circuit

💭 Think About

• In a series circuit, is there more than one path for charge (current) to flow, or only one? How does that affect what every point in the circuit experiences? • Think about what happens to voltage across each resistor in series: does each component see the same voltage, or does the voltage ‘drop’ in pieces across them? • Consider the definition of resistance and inductance. Are these properties of each component individually, or do they automatically become identical everywhere in the circuit?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which quantity must be the same at every point in a single‑path circuit for charge to be conserved. • Recall that in a series circuit, the sum of individual voltage drops equals the source voltage – what does that imply about how voltage behaves at each component? • Confirm whether resistance and inductance are fixed properties of components or shared equally throughout a series circuit.