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Ch 01: Intro to Physics; Units
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Ch 05: Projectile Motion
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Ch 25: Electric Force & Field; Gauss' Law
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Ch 28: Resistors & DC Circuits
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Ch 30: Sources of Magnetic Field
Ch 31: Induction and Inductance
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Sections
Intro to Current
Resistors and Ohm's Law
Power in Circuits
Microscopic View of Current
Combining Resistors in Series & Parallel
Kirchhoff's Junction Rule
Solving Resistor Circuits
Kirchhoff's Loop Rule

Concept #1: Power in Circuits

Practice: A hair dryer operates at 120 V (the voltage produced by a household outlet), and outputs 1200 W of energy. For this problem, treat the hair dryer as a single resistor. 

(a) At what current does the hair dryer operate?
(b) What is the resistance of the hair dryer?

Practice: An incandescent lightbulb produces 100 W of light. If this lightbulb operates at 25% efficiency (meaning that out of all the power it generates, only 25% is released as light), what resistance must the lightbulb have if it operates at 120 V?