Monday, February 28, 2011

Cinderella' Carriage

So these past few weeks and especially this week my life has been centered around the musical, so naturally i thought I would connect it with physics.  Well as hopefully all of you know, in Cinderella there is a carriage which was once a pumpkin that takes Cinderella to the ball.  In the version we are putting on, this carriage in one that is light up, it is quite beautiful.  So one day when I entered the theater, the carriage lights were on and I instantly thought of physics.  In the past several weeks we have learned that light bulbs(resistors) can be set up in either a series or parallel circuit.  Now originally I would have thought the lights were in a series circuit since the are placed in a line, but after these few weeks I have learned that a string of lights are usually in a parallel circuit in case one of the bulbs burns out it will not effect the other lights since a separate current is carrying voltage to each bulb. So luckily if one of the lights burns out on the carriage, the show will still go on because the other bulbs are still shinning.
(Didn't have a picture of the carriage will get one posted tomorrow, but for now enjoy one of the horses that pull the carriage.)

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