5.1-5.2
Best conductor of electricity.
What is copper?
Device used to detect and measure small electric currents.
What is a galvanometer?
A property earth has that causes grounding to drain static charges.
What is high resistance?
What the north poles of two bar magnets do when brought together.
What is repel?
The name of the electrical device that turns of circuit when overloaded.
What is a circuit breaker?
Electrical device that can control the flow of current in an electrical circuit.
What is a resistor?
Batteries produce ____________; generators make ___________.
What is dc; ac?
How much power does the average hair dryer use.
What is 1,200 Watts?
What a transformer between utility wires and your house does.
What is decreases voltage?
Name of an electrical device that changes the voltage of alternating current.
What is a transformer?
A measure of energy for the amount of charge.
What is voltage?
What a dc battery provides.
What is potential energy?
As more devices are added to a series circuit, this happens _________.
What is decreasing?
What energy transformation occurs in and electric motor.
What is electrical to kinetic?
A unit of electrical energy sold by electric companies.
What is a kilowatt-hour?
Like charges ________; unlike charges _____________.
What is repel; attract?
What a generator transforms.
What is mechanical energy into electrical energy?
Why severe electric shock is dangerous.
What is, stopping heart from beating, causing burns, and interfering with breathing?
What prevents most charged particles from the sun hitting earth.
What is earth's atmosphere?
The force between two electrons.
What is Repulsive?
A material that is a good electrical insulator.
What is a poor conductor?
The output energy of a generator.
What is less than the input energy?
Because an air conditioner uses more electric power than a light bulb this is true.
What is using more energy every second?
What does not connect with magnetic fields.
What is paper?
Something that surrounds electric charges forcing them to affect each other.
What is an electric field?