History of Electricity
When electric fish were first recorded to cause electric shocks.
What is 3000 BC
These subatomic particles have a negative charge.
What are electrons?
What is an Insulator or Resistor?
What electrical power is measured in.
What is Watts?
What are the load, energy source, wires and switch?
When Ben Franklin experimented with lightning
What is 1752?
The flow of an electric charge.
When excess charge is transferred from an object to the earth.
What is grounding?
What resistance is measured in.
What is Ohms?
The 2 types of circuits.
What are series and parallel?
Who is Joseph Swan?
The Law of Electric Charges.
What is like charges repel and opposite charges attract?
The release of stored electricity.
What is electric discharge?
The voltage if the current is 5 amps and the resistance is 12 Ohms.
What is 60 Volts?
A flashlight is this type of circuit.
He disagreed with Nikola Tesla about which type of current was better, AC or DC.
Thomas Edison
The rate at which charges pass a given point.
What is electric current?
The build up of electric charge.
What is static electricity?
The voltage when the current is 4 amps and the resitance is 1.4 Ohms.
What is 6 Ohms?
The state of the circuit when the switch is on.
What is closed?
Who is Alessandro Volta?
The space around an electrically charged object.
What is an electric field?
A material that electricity can easily move through.
What is a conductor?
The power a gaming system uses that runs on 1.5 amps at a voltage of 120.
What is 180 Watts?
The state of the circuit when a switch is turned off.
What is open?