Vocab 1
A complete circuit through which electricity flows.
What is a Closed Circuit?
Paper, Plastic, and Rubber.
What is a good insulator?
A device to measure small amounts of current
What is a galvanometer?
The unit for resistance.
What is _ohm______?
An incomplete circuit through which electricity will not flow.
What is an Open Circuit?
The lights are on so it is a...
What is a closed circuit?
In this kind of circuit the current is the same at every point.
What is a series circuit?
The voltage of cells in series is the _?_ of their separate voltages.
What is ____sum__________.
A material which readily transmits current.
What is a conductor?
A device used to open and close circuits.
What is a switch?
If a conductor moves in a magnetic field so that current is generated we have this.
What is electromagnetic induction?
What is a parallel circuit?
What is V=IR?
An in individual item in a circuit.
What is component?
A way to represent a circuit on a piece of paper.
What is a circuit diagram?
The influence of a charged body at a distance to another body can achieve this.
What is production of charge by induction?
A circuit that splits into two or more pathways before coming together at the battery.
What is a parallel circuit?
Equation for Power
P=VI = Vˆ2/R = I ˆ2(R)
Also known as potential difference.
What is voltage?
Unit for Resistance.
What is an Ohm?
From positive to negative
What is the way conventional current, but not real current, flows?
The difference between AC and DC generators is that the DC generator has this.
What is a commutator?
Equivalent resistance of two 3 ohm resistors in parallel.
What is 1.5 ohm