Resistor

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written by Timothy Stelzer

This Adobe Shockwave simulation, provides the gravitational analog for electrical resistance. A colored charge (positive charge flow) allows the user to also observe the speed of charges in a circuit.

Please note that this resource requires Shockwave.

http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/tstelzer/102project/trace1.htm

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - DC Circuits = Currents = Ohm's Law	- Lower Undergraduate - Middle School - High School	- Instructional Material = Curriculum support = Interactive Simulation - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Educators - Learners	- application/shockwave	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: Does not have a copyright, license, or other use restriction.
Courtesy of:: Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Keywords:: analogy, gravity, resistance
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created September 7, 2008 by Taha Mzoughi
Record Updated:: September 7, 2008 by Taha Mzoughi

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T. Stelzer, , WWW Document, (http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/tstelzer/102project/trace1.htm).

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T. Stelzer, Resistor, <http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/tstelzer/102project/trace1.htm>.

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Stelzer, T. (n.d.). Resistor. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/tstelzer/102project/trace1.htm

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Stelzer, Timothy. Resistor. http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/tstelzer/102project/trace1.htm (accessed 14 August 2026).

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Stelzer, Timothy. Resistor. 14 Aug. 2026 <http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/tstelzer/102project/trace1.htm>.

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@misc{ Author = "Timothy Stelzer", Title = {Resistor}, Volume = {2026}, Number = {14 August 2026}, Year = {} }

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