Current divider

Okay kiddo, so you know how when you have some candy and you want to share it with your friends, you can divide it up evenly so everyone gets some? Well, the same thing can happen with electricity!

Imagine you have a battery that has a certain amount of electricity in it, and you want to use that electricity to power different things, like a light bulb or a fan. But you don't want to use up all the electricity on just one thing, because then the other things won't work. What you can do is use something called a current divider to split up the electricity evenly between the different things you want to power.

A current divider is basically just a special circuit that takes the electricity from the battery and splits it up into smaller amounts that can go to different places. It does this by using something called resistors, which are kind of like little barriers that slow down the flow of electricity.

Say you have two things you want to power, like a light bulb and a fan. You can hook up the current divider so that the electricity flows through one resistor to get to the light bulb, and another resistor to get to the fan. The resistors will split up the electricity so that each thing gets an equal amount of power.

So, in summary, a current divider is like a way to split up the electricity from a battery so that different things can use it equally. It uses resistors to slow down the flow of electricity and divide it up into smaller amounts for each thing. Just like sharing candy with your friends, everyone gets a fair share!