A series-parallel circuit consists of ___________ of both series and parallel current paths.

If you know Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s laws, the voltage-divider formulat, and the current-divider formula, and if you know how to apply these laws, you can solve most ________ circuit analysis problems.

When a load resistor, , is connected from the output to ground, the output is reduced by and amount that depends on the value of .  This is called ________.

If the loading effect is small, the divider is said to be a _____ voltage divider.

As a rule of thumb, a stiff voltage divider is on in which the load resistor is at least ____ times larger than the divider resistor.

Because of its internal resistance, a voltmeter, or any other measuring instrument for that matter, puts a ______ on the circuit and will affect, to a certain extent, the voltage that is being measured.

The Wheatstone bridge circuit can be used to precisely measure resistance.  However, the bridge is most commonly used in conjunction with _________ to measure physical quantities such as strain, temperature, and pressure.

Transducers are devices that sense a change in a physical parameter and convert that change into an __________ quantity such as a change in resistance.

The Wheatstone bridge is in the balanced bridge condition when the output voltage () between terminals A and B is equal to ________.

An ___________ bridge condition occurs when is not equal to zero.

If temperature is to be measured, the transducer can be a __________, which is a temperature-sensitive resistor.

A Wheatstone bridge with a strain gauge can be used to measure ________.

A _____ cell is a transducer that uses strain gauges to convert mechanical force into an electrical signal.

The ___________ equivalent voltage () is the open circuit (no-load), voltage between two specified output terminals in a circuit.

The Thevenin equivalent resistance () is the total resistance appearing between two specified output terminals in a circuit with all sources replaced by their ___________ resistances (which for an ideal voltage source is zero).

Remember, the Thevenin equivalent circuit for any resistive circuit is always and equivalent votage source in series with an equivalent resistance _________ of the original circuit that it replaces.

Fo a given source voltage, maximum power is transferred from a source to a load when the load resistance is ________ to the internal source resistance.

The superposition theorem is a way to determine currents in a circuit with ________ sources by leaving one source at a time and replacing the other sources by their internal resistances.

Troubleshooting is the process of identifying and locating a ________ or problem in a circuit.

A short is considered to be a _____ resistance path between two points.