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ELECTRICITY CURRENT
PRESENTATION
MADE BY: MASON, CARLOS, ANDREW
GROUND WIRE
Ground wire- a wire that is connected to the earth to lower the risk
of electrical shock.
Protects against electrical shocks. The yellow wire connected from
the power pole to the ground
VOLTS, AMPS, AND WATTS
Volts- is measured in volts.
Ampere- is a unit of measure of the rate of electron flow of one
coulomb per second.
Watt- is the SI unit of power, equivalent to one joule per second.
CURRENT ELECTRICITY
Current electricity- is the flow of electrons in a certain path to
create electricity.
THE DIFFERENCE???
The difference between static electricity and current is, static
electricity steals electrons and only has one path. Current
electricity has multiple paths and doesn’t steal anything.
ADVANTAGES/DISADVANTAGES
Advantage to series circuit is there is only one switch to turn on and
off. The circuit is broken. Disadvantage is if one goes out they all
go out.
Advantage to parallel is if one goes out there is still electricity being
produced to the rest. Disadvantage is there is more than one
switch.
Series Circuit
Parallel Circuit
ELECTRICITY BEING GENERATED
• There are many ways electricity can be produced.
• Windmills
• Nuclear fueled power plants
• Power stations
• Turbines
• Dams
• Generators
DAMS AND WIND TURBINES
Dams and wind turbines produce kind of in the same way. When
the wind and water flows its kinetic energy. That kinetic energy
is converted into electricity.
NUCLEAR FUELED POWER PLANTS
In a power plant water is turned into steam, and that steams turns
the turbine generators to produce electricity. To cause the water
to steam they use uranium atom to split the atoms called fission.
GENERATORS AND POWER STATIONS
Electricity is mostly generated at a power station by electromagnetically
generators, primarily driven by heat engines fueled by chemical
combustion or nuclear fission. Generators convert mechanical
energy into electricity.
Power station
Generators
HEAT
A resistor turns the electricity into heat and slows down the
current. Light bulbs are resistors.