Learning Electricity

Static electricity represents a situation that all things are made up of electric charges.

Learning electricity. Ks2 science electricity learning resources for adults children parents and teachers. A load is a device that uses electricity like a buzzer of a light blub. Electricity is transported to our homes schools and places of work through wires and cables. In this video we learn how electricity works starting from the basics of the free electron in the atom through conductors voltage current resistors led.

The electric current from the power source flows from one place to another through the wire of a circuit. A simple series electrical circuit is a circuit for electricity to flow around as shown in the diagram. Residential consumption of electricity in the u s. Accounts for 21 of total energy use.

What are some of the facts. For example the rubbing of material against another can cause the static electricity. Electricity can also be stored in batteries sometimes called cells. Electricity flowing through a circuit is called a current.

There are 2 703 kilowatt hours of electricity use per capita in north america every year or 7 4 kilowatt hours day. As opposed to static electricity where charges gather and remain at rest current electricity is dynamic charges are always on the move. Free electrons of one material move forcefully till they are freed of their orbits around nucleus and move to another. The load needs electrical energy to be able work.