Here is the closet light's diagram again, still, for your own finger.
Outside the source, the current flows from the positive terminal around the loop to the negative terminal. For the closet light, the trace gives: battery, then switch, then lamp, then back to the battery.
A diagram shows a battery, an ammeter, a resistor, and a lamp in one loop. Starting at the battery's positive terminal, list the components in the order the current passes them.
The current leaves the positive terminal.
Following the wire, it reaches the ammeter first.
Then it passes the resistor, then the lamp.
Then it is back at the battery.
battery, then ammeter, then resistor, then lamp, then back to the battery
The same diagram gains a voltmeter across the lamp. Does the main-loop current pass through the voltmeter?
The voltmeter hangs across the lamp, outside the loop.
The main-loop current stays in the loop.
No. The current passes the ammeter, the resistor, and the lamp, and not the voltmeter.
In the diagram, which component does the current reach first after leaving the positive terminal?
In the diagram, which component does the current pass last, just before returning to the battery?
Starting at the positive terminal, in which order does the current pass the components?
Starting at the positive terminal, in which order does the current pass the components?
The current is drawn flowing from the battery's positive terminal. From there, which components does the main-loop current pass through, in order?
Which component does the current reach first after leaving the positive terminal?