Static Electricity
The rapid release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
What is static discharge?
When the circuit is connected and the current is flowing.
What is closed?
A property of a component that hinders motion of electric charge.
What is resistance?
A type of energy source that is unable to be recharged.
What is a primary cell?
Coal, Oil and gas.
What are non-renewable resources?
Connecting an object to earth with a conducting wire to mitigate the effects of lightning.
What is Grounding?
Another name for Voltage.
What is potential Difference?
A way to connect wires where there is only one path for the electrons to move. If one part goes out, the whole path is disrupted.
What is a series circuit?
Aluminium, zinc or copper metal strips used in an electrolyte solution to create a wet cell.
What are electrodes?
The useful energy output divided by the total energy input multiplied by 100%.
What is Efficiency?
The largest form of static electricity.
What is lightning?
Multiple are put together to make up a battery
What are Cells?
What is a parallel circuit?
A device that converts mechanical energy into electric energy.
What is a generator?
The device that uses uneven heating of a bimetallic strip in order to make it bend.
What is a circuit breaker?
Three rules that describe the possible behaviours that occur when objects with different charges are brought close to each other.
What are the laws of attraction?
Current is measured with this.
What is an Ammeter?
Increasing the length of the wire, decreasing the area (thickness) of the wire, increasing the temperature.
What are ways to increase resistance?
A Danish physicist that tried to prove that there was no relationship between electricity and magnetism, only to prove the opposite.
Who is Hans Christian Oersted?
Using gravity and water to create movement in a generator.
What is Hydro-electricity?
Materials that offer little, if any resistance to the flow of charges.
What are superconductors?
Wrapping wires with this to prevent the movement of electricity.
What are insulators?
120 V and 10 A are used to calculate resistance. Include the units resistance is measured in.
What is an 12 ohms?
The power from a current of 3 A and a voltage of 120 V.
What is 360 Watts?
What is electrical safety?