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Types of electrical circuits

Two-terminal components and electrical networks can be connected in series or parallel. The resulting electrical network will have two terminals, and itself can participate in a series or parallel topology.

Whether a two-terminal "object" is an electrical component (e.g. a resistor) or an electrical network (e.g. resistors in series) is a matter of perspective.

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This article will use "component" to refer to a two-terminal "object" that participates in the series/parallel networks.

Components connected in series are connected along a single "electrical path", and each component has the same electric current through it, equal to the current through the network.

The voltage across the network is equal to the sum of the voltages across each component.^[1][2]

Components connected in parallel are connected along multiple paths, and each component has the same voltage across it, equal to the voltage ac