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Maybe somewhere in your home there's a long hallway or a stairway with a light that you can turn on from either end. It's a nice convenience, but did you ever wonder how it's wired up to work that way? The goal of this project is to build a similar circuit with switches, flashlight batteries and a flashlight bulb (obviously, household circuits are not safe to experiment with). You'll need to understand the difference between connections made in series and connections made in parallel in an electric circuit. For materials, you'll need 2 SPDT (single-pole, double throw) switches, a flashlight bulb, a bulb holder, 3 or 4 D-cell batteries and some insulated connecting wires with alligator clips. You can connect multiple D-cells together by laying them sideways and taping them end-to-end (with the + pole of one battery touching the − pole of the next, just like in a flashlight). Tape paper clips to the + pole of the top battery and the − pole of the bottom battery so you can connect them to your circuit. (Rosner, 2000)Bibliography
Rosner, M.A., 2000. Scientific American Great Science Fair Projects. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.
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"Upstairs, Downstairs: Turning on a Light from Two Places." Science Buddies,
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