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Electric Current
What is the flow of electricity?
100
Silver and Copper are examples of these materials that allow electrical current to pass.
What are conductors?
100
These three items are present in a basic circuit
What are a battery (or other power source) a wire and a device (to use the power)?
100
James Clerk Maxwell was born in this country.
What is Scotland?
100
A material which has a resistance of zero is known as this.
What is a superconductor?
200
Circuit
What is a path that an electric current follows?
200
Rubber and glass are examples of this type of material which prohibit the flow of electrical current.
What are insulators?
200
A circuit is called this when the power switch is off or there is otherwise a gap.
What is open?
200
James Clerk Maxwell died at the age of 48 from this.
What is abdominal cancer?
200
Materials that resist the flow of electricity are known as this.
What are insulators?
300
This supplies energy to move electricity through a circuit
What is a Battery?
300
This is a circuit in which electrical current can follow only one path.
What is a series circuit?
300
Electric current only flows when the circuit is in this state.
What is closed?
300
Maxwell's work paved the way for this device found in most modern kitchens.
What is the Microwave?
300
All known superconducters must be kept ________ to fucntion as a superconductor.
What is very cold? (-234 degrees celcius)
400
Electric current cannot pass through these materials
What are insulators
400
This type of circuit allows electrical current to follow more than one path.
What is a parallel circuit?
400
True or false: In a series circuit consisting of a battery and two lightbulbs, one lightbule will still light up if the other is removed.
What is False?
400
In adition to his work with electricity and magnetism, Maxwell studied the rings of this planet early in his career.
What is Saturn?
400
Useful in computers to control the flow of electric current by only allowing it to flow in one direction or under certain circumstances, this type of material has properties of both a conductor and an insulator.
What is a semiconductor?
500
These materials allow electrical currents to pass through easily
What are conductors?
500
The kind of circuit represented in the diagram below
What is a parallel circuit
500
The kind of circuit represented in the diagram below:
What is a series circuit?
500
This scientist's most notable achievement was his work with electricity and magnetic lines of force.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
500
Semiconductors, used in computer chips and other electronics are typically made of this.
What is silicon?