20.3 Potential dividers

20.3 Potential dividers

This PowerPoint summarises what AS-Level students need to understand for the potential dividers section of DC circuits, in the CIE A Level Physics syllabus.

Outcomes covered are:
a) understand the principle of a potential divider circuit as a source of variable p.d.
b) recall and solve problems using the principle of the potentiometer as a means of comparing potential differences

Relevant past papers also included (from coverpapers.com)