Key Concepts
Houses in a home are wired using:
Parallel circuits
The filament inside of a lightbulb is what?
Tungsten
Ohms law:
I = V/R
A closed loop that allows energy to flow is defined as what?
A circuit
The man given the nickname "lord kelvin"
William Thomson
When a current is flowing in a circuit, the switch must be:
Closed
Where is the safest place to be in a lightning storm?
Indoors
The variable for calculating an electric bill
kilowatt hour
RAM stands for:
Random-access memory
The user of the Leyden jar
Benjamin Franklin
High temperature correlates to what?
High resistance
What device is needed to measure voltage?
Voltmeter
Resistance formula for a PARALLEL circuit:
1/Rtotal=1/R1+1/R2+...
Energy in transit between objects that are at different temperatures is defined as what?
Heat
Who person who invented the closest thing to a modern day battery
Alessandro Volta
Disposable batteries are often made of what?
two rods of zinc and carbon
What happens when you remove a resistor from a series circuit?
The entire circuit will break (bummer, man.)
Resistance formula for a SERIES circuit
Rtotal=R1+R2+R3+…
The energy something has when it is MOVING is defined as what?
Kinetic Energy
Founders of the term Galvanism (two people)
Lucia and Luigi Galvani
Dielectrics prevent the flow of what?
Electric currents
What two planets has lightning been spotted on BESIDES Earth?
Venus and Jupiter
The formula for power
P=IV
Capacitance is defined as:
The ability of an object to store electric charge
Who thought that electrotherapy could cure depression?
Giovani Aldini