A free course

Circuit Lab

Five short lessons build up the fundamentals of electric circuits, one idea at a time — each with its own live diagram you can drag and break. Then a full interactive lab and ten practice questions tie it all together.

How this works

Go in order the first time — each lesson leans on the one before it. Every lesson has a small interactive circuit built into the page, so you're never just reading; you're dragging sliders and watching real numbers respond. Budget about 10 minutes a lesson.

Lesson 1

Charge and current

What's actually moving in a wire, and why current is a rate, not an amount.

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Lesson 2

Voltage: energy per charge

1 V = 1 J/C. The idea that makes everything else in this topic make sense.

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Lesson 3

Resistance and Ohm's Law

What resistance does to current, and V = IR in all three rearrangements.

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Lesson 4

Series circuits

One path, no junctions: same current everywhere, voltages add up.

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Lesson 5

Parallel circuits

A junction splits the charge: same voltage on every branch, currents add up.

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Lesson 6

Combining them

The step-by-step recipe for mixed series-parallel circuits, worked in full.

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The lab

Where the volts go

The full interactive circuit: guided walkthrough, live sliders, break-the-circuit switches.

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Practice

10 questions

From a basic charge calculation up to a full combined circuit. Self-checking.

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