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<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=jpg:: ::/sites/dl/free/0070524076/57981/open18.jpg','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (15.0K)</a> Graham's car won't start; the battery is dead after he left the headlights on overnight. In a kitchen drawer are several 1.5-V flashlight batteries. Graham decides to connect eight of them together, being careful to connect the positive terminal of one to the negative terminal of the next, just the way two 1.5-V batteries are connected inside a flashlight to provide 3.0 V. Eight 1.5-V batteries should provide 12, he reasons. Will this scheme work?









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