Electric Current
What is the flow of electricity?
Silver and Copper are examples of these materials that allow electrical current to pass.
What are conductors?
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)?
What is Scotland?
A material which has a resistance of zero is known as this.
What is a superconductor?
Circuit
What is a path that an electric current follows?
Rubber and glass are examples of this type of material which prohibit the flow of electrical current.
What are insulators?
A circuit is called this when the power switch is off or there is otherwise a gap.
What is open?
James Clerk Maxwell died at the age of 48 from this.
What is abdominal cancer?
What are insulators?
This supplies energy to move electricity through a circuit
What is a Battery?
This is a circuit in which electrical current can follow only one path.
What is a series circuit?
Electric current only flows when the circuit is in this state.
What is closed?
Maxwell's work paved the way for this device found in most modern kitchens.
What is the Microwave?
All known superconducters must be kept ________ to fucntion as a superconductor.
What is very cold? (-234 degrees celcius)
Electric current cannot pass through these materials
What are insulators
This type of circuit allows electrical current to follow more than one path.
What is a parallel circuit?
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?
In adition to his work with electricity and magnetism, Maxwell studied the rings of this planet early in his career.
What is Saturn?
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?
What are conductors?
The kind of circuit represented in the diagram below
What is a parallel circuit
The kind of circuit represented in the diagram below:
What is a series circuit?
This scientist's most notable achievement was his work with electricity and magnetic lines of force.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
Semiconductors, used in computer chips and other electronics are typically made of this.
What is silicon?