Thursday, 15 November 2012

Electronics experimentations.

As I mentioned previously, we have borrowed an electronics kit for a month or two and as a thank you I'm replacing a couple of bulbs and a blown fuse - a bargain!  While we were in town for ice-skating on Wednesday we got the things we needed (more in the case of the fuse as they come in packs of 10!)

K has been enjoying finding out what various components do and we will be continuing with this and hopefully finding some answers to some of the questions she had (with a trip to the dentist this mornin and 2 hours of gymnastics and a swimming lesson this afternoon we didn't have that long to play with it today).


M liked it too, but she mainly concentrating on making the fan fly as high as possible.

Quite high this time!
While M was having her go, K had a look at the booklet with me and on the first page there were 10 'revision' questions: 10 pictures of circuits mostly with one bulb, but a couple with two, and you had to decide whether the bulb or bulbs would light up in each one.  Most of them were quite straight forward, as there was a gap or the battery missing, but she was confident and correct in all her answers, even the slightly more tricky ones at the end.  Afterwards I recreated each of the circuits to show that she was right.

We're not quite so busy tomorrow in theory, so will probably get this out again and have another go!

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