Electricity Vocabulary

Physics homework for 2/11/15:

Check Your Progress: Electricity

       Today in class we mainly worked in groups on vocabulary and we did various vocabulary related activities like a little test and a discussion.

          Even before taking physics people know a general bit about electricity, but here is what I know about electricity so far as a result of physics class. Electricity is a form of energy that results from the existence of charged particles like protons and electrons as neutrons cannot be charged. Plus, as protons are the positive part in the middle of an atom and as electrons are the negative part moving freely around the atom the charges are either positive or negative and atoms are only charged when either the protons or electrons are greater than each other. Depending on which one is greater than the other, the atom will either be positively charged or negatively charged. Now, as electrons are the only part of atoms that can move easily they tend to either flow freely through items when moved or they tend to stick to things. Conductors like metal allow electrons to flow through them, but insulators like glass won't allow the electrons the flow through. In fact, the electrons will just sit on the glass looking all pretty and stuff! And if someone were to swipe all the electrons up into their hands and then say touch a door knob or something that conducts electrons well, then the electrons would quickly discharge as a current through the conductor because they have an opportunity to. This discharge is known as "static electricity". Finally, as we all know, opposite charges will attract (negative and positive). But similar forces will repel (negative and negative/positive and positive).

       This was a very broad paragraph about electricity as there is more to it, but generally this is what I know :)!!~

      

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