Explain How Electricity Works

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Explain how electricity works. When the current flows it works like a magnet. We will discuss the following aspects. You generally talk about household electrical service as single phase 120 volt ac service. It s energy that travels down a metal wire from the place where it s produced anything from a gigantic power plant to a tiny battery to the thing it powers often an electric motor heating element or lamp.

The modern electricity that powers everything from the phone in your pocket to the subway you ride to school or work is what we call current electricity or electric current. Electricity how it works this is a very common question it can best be explained by stating this way. Its best known form is the flow of electrons through conductors such as copper wires. Not an easy task it s really not an easy task to explain kids what is the electricity and what is really happening in the wires while lamp is powered or what are the magnets magnetism and how all this stuff works.

A neat analogy to help understand these terms is a system of plumbing pipes. Single phase electricity is what you have in your house. Electricity is a transmission medium for electrical energy like sea. You might have seen giant steel electromagnets working in a scrapyard.

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge electricity is related to magnetism both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism as described by maxwell s equations various common phenomena are related to electricity including lightning static electricity electric heating electric discharges. Electricity is the presence and flow of electric charge using electricity we can transfer energy in ways that allow us to do simple chores. The word electricity is sometimes used to mean electrical energy they are not the same thing. For more videos go to.

Electricity and magnetism are closely related. An electromagnet is a magnet that can be switched on and off with electricity. The voltage is equivalent to the water pressure the current is equivalent to the flow rate and the resistance is like the pipe size. When the current stops it goes back to being an ordinary unmagnetized piece of steel.