Are series or parallel circuits used to provide electrical energy to wall outlets?

Question

Why?

Answer 1

Parallel!

A series circuit is like... a series. You have to go through EVERY element in the circuit before you get to the end. So if all your wall-sockets were connected in series, the circuit would have a break and be incomplete unless every socket had something plugged into it. Inconvenient, to say the least!

In a parallel circuit, the current flows through all the parallel devices simultaneously. Even if one is completely absent, it flows through all the others. This is obviously exactly what you want to have happen with a bunch of wall sockets which may or may not have something plugged into them!

Answer 2

Parallel circuits are used so you have the same voltage at each outlet. Also note that series outlets will not work because you can't complete a circuit by plugging into just one outlet.

Answer 3

parallel

A series circuit is one that has a single path for current flow through all of its elements.

A parallel circuit is one that requires more than one path for current flow in order to reach all of the circuit elements.

As a demonstration, consider a very simple circuit consisting of two lightbulbs and one 9 V battery. If a wire joins the battery to one bulb, to the next bulb, then back to the battery, in one continuous loop, the bulbs are said to be in series. If, on the other hand, each bulb is wired separately to the battery in two loops, the bulbs are said to be in parallel.

The current that enters a series circuit has to flow through every element in the circuit. Therefore, all elements in a series connection have equal currents. If you were to add more resistance to the circuit (by turning on a light), the current in the whole circuit would decrease making all the bulbs in the circuit dimmer.
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Answer 4

Parallel. Otherwise, the outlets downstream would go off when you switched off a light. Otherwise, the current on the beginning of the circuit would be too great. Parallel

Answer 5

Actually this question is kinda tricky. Yes its true that breaking a series circuit will cause anything downline to lose power, but in the case of residential outlets, they can be run in series, or in parallel.

There is a way to wire an outlet that does not "break" the circuit when you wire it up, so it really depends on the electrician running the wires through the home.

Answer 6

It could be either. Series is when they go from outlet to outlet hooking more than one at a circuit breaker. Parallel is just one outlet on the circuit. Find out, shut off a circuit breaker and explore what works.

Answer 7

parallel circuits.

If the household circuits were set up in series, you would need to have many electronic items plugged in to complete the circuit; also, each electric item plugged in would drop a certain amount of voltage and each would not get its full 115 volts.

A parallel circuit allows any number of appliances to be plugged in and not have a voltage drop (ideally).

Answer 8

Usually parallel. If you had a series circuit, then unplugging one fixture would break the circuit and make all of the other plugs go dead.

Answer 9

Parallel. You'd constantly be cutting voltage in half if you had a circuit in series. So you first appliance would work, but not your second!

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Answer 10

Emm...I have just stirred from my grave.....the answer must be parallel. Each device must get the full voltage from the source (115V or 230V) in order to work properly. Series circuits simply cannot work. AE