Jason sees a news report about a traffic jam caused by a truckload of tires that spilled across the road. The next day in class, he uses the traffic jam as an analogy to explain electric circuits to his friend.Which is most likely the analogy that Jason used?

The cars moving through the traffic jam are like moving electric charges, or current. The spilled tires obstruct the road, just as resistance obstructs the flow of charge in a circuit. Greater resistance reduces current, so the best analogy is “the cars represent moving charges, and the spilled tires represent an increased resistance that causes the current to decrease.”

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