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Virtual Lab: Battery Water Wheels in Series
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In this analogy the water flows back down to ground completing the circuit.

Note that water is not created or destroyed, but simply raised and lowered in energy. Likewise electrons in a circuit are not created nor destroyed, but simply raised and lowered in energy.

 
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