8/8/2019 Battery Design Challenge Answers

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Battery Design Challenge

This is an electrical cell.

This is the circuit symbol.

Most people call it a battery but this is incorrect. To make abattery, you need two or more cells.

This is a battery of two cells. They are arranged in series togive a voltage of 3 V.

1. Draw an arrangement of 1.5 V cells that could supply 6V to power a small radio.

2. Draw a suitable arrangement of 1.5 V cells that could supply 3 V that couldpower a high current device for long period of time.

3. Extension: Show how the cells in Q1 could be arranged to fit in a smaller space.

4. What is different between the cells in Q2 and Q4?Q2: Cells in parallelQ3 Cells in series

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