What are the real life applications of series and parallel connections?
Nothing is that simple (series or parallel) in real life. Every circuit in anything more complicated than a flashlight has dozens or hundreds or thousands of circuits, in complicated combinations of series and parallel circuits. The processor chip in your PC contains over a billion transistors. So that is over a billion circuits in that one chip alone. so, aside from the flashlight, which has 2 cells, a switch, and a bulb, all in series, there are zero things I can point to and say “that is a parallel circuit” or “that is a series circuit”. Take house wiring, working from the bulb back: the bulb may be two bulbs in parallel, and that is in series with the switch, the wires, and the connectors. That circuit is in parallel with a few other similar circuits that are on the same line. That line connects back the the breaker box with wires and circuit breaker in series. On the other side of the breaker, that entire circuit is in parallel with perhaps 10 others, and then that connects, via s