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Resistor Color Code Description

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In this interactive activity, students read about the colored stripes on a resistor and interpret the placement of those colors to determine the value of four-band resistors.

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I looks like there is a spot or two where k-ohms and ohms are used incorrectly. As an example, one of the answers is 57 ohms and yet, the answer marked as correct was 57 k-ohms.

Posted by Cody Mitchell on 1/3/2023 2:02:47 PM Reply

We will have a developer republish this with the correct number of trailing zeroes for some of those examples.

Posted by Tom Thiel on 1/4/2023 7:57:32 AM Reply

Cody, This has been updated. thanks for pointing out the error.

Posted by Tom Thiel on 1/6/2023 11:05:04 AM Reply

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