What is electricity?

Answer 1

Electricity is a property of matter that results from the presence or movement of electric charge. Together with magnetism, it constitutes the fundamental interaction known as electromagnetism. Electricity is responsible for many well-known physical phenomena such as lightning, electric fields and electric currents, and is put to use in industrial applications such as electronics and electric power.

Answer 2

Recently i read the electricity concept in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.
Go through electrical engg and Physics. You will find misconcepts of electricity as a topic. The author says electricity is a subject like physics, chemistry etc. The old scientists used the term electricity as an other word for 'charge'. Now, people used the term 'electricity' to refer to many.....such as current, voltage, energy, power, and so on. Dictionaries included all these meanings for electricity. Most of the dictionaries show it as energy.

Answer 3

It is a part of science concerning a characteristic of material which is called 'electric charge'. And the electric charge is the amber-like behavior of material when rubbing on certain surfaces. It then gradually has been developed from its first phase (static form) into new forms (dynamic) through experiment made by Faraday and Volta. Now, it is everything for us at home, without it is very difficult to live in big towns and cities.

Answer 4

Electricity is energy created by the movement of electrons

Answer 5

# a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons
# energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor; "they built a car that runs on electricity"
# keen and shared excitement; "the stage crackled with electricity whenever she was on it"

Answer 6

electricity is the flow of electrons from negative to positive terminal.

Answer 7

Apart from classical concepts of electricity obtainable from textbooks we shall try a more philosophical viewpoint.Electricity is the gross Active Principle of all materialistic world. Analogously Consciousness is the subtle Active Principle of all animated world. Gross material forms are insentient and yet possess and are vulnerable to all active characteristics of electrical phenomena. The fundamental electrical characteristics are Electro- as relating to projections and potentials and Magnetic- as relating to possessions and retentions.Between these two there is always action which is simultaneously both Causative as well as Resultive. A pen cell has a voltage potential of 1.5V between positve and negative terminals which is the result of chemical action constantly maintained within the cell as an active principle. We can tap this potential placing the cell in some instrument such as a clock to show us time. Indeed the electrical charges stored up within the cell giving raise to teminal potential difference can be viewed as possessive(magnetic) in nature which becomes manifest only when the stored up charges flow in an electrical current energizing external circuit (clock or a toy or an electro-magnet).Hence,out of necessity, Nature has created magnetic materials whose external manifestation is the result of a dormant action of coherent electron spin in the same direction within their atomic structures shown as a magnetic potential of north and South poles at opposite ends. Therefore Action is always present either embedded(chemical or electron spin) as potential or dynamic as a moving toy or a running clock animating even insentient materials. The subtle consciousness acting embedded in our bodies is also showing similar characteristics in human personalities. Some people are highly positive and have active potentials to explore intellectually or execute managerially and some are highly possessive showing lazy self centered characteristics acting within a narrow environment. This phenomenon is observable analogously in electro magnetic radiation where magnetic induction fields remain only in close proximity to the transmitting antennas where as electrical fields reach out far into space serving all communication purposes. Hence taking activity as a basic characteristic varying between electric and magnetic fields of influence results in most fundamental form of energy states known as electro-magnetic energies.The rate of variation per unit time which is frequency is indicative of the degree of freedom from magnetic influences resulting in radiated propagation. What we term as Electricity for terrestial power distributions has freq's of 50 to 60 cycles per second as a practical compromise among various relavent factors. The consciousness as a subtle active principle animating highly complex chemistry of physical bodies living organisms are composed of relies mostly upon chemical changes induced by electrical stimuli as means of signal communication between brain and various organs. Visible light falling part of electromagnetic spectrum of frequencies has a direct influence on consciousness enabling us to see not only the relative magnitudes (sizes) of physical bodies but also their contours by colour variations.To bring this philosophical boring to some conclusion we have to let our consciousness open to further studies integrating all experiences in a positive manner within our personalities which the pioneers who explored all electrical phenomena of earlier centuries have handed over to us.

Answer 8

electricity is an energy that we can stroke after touch it,

Answer 9

it is the transfer of charge from one point to another.