how does electricity circulate through your house?

Question

please tell me, i need a basic understanding of how electricity gets to your house and how ti powers things

Answer 1

dude im currently training to be an electircan----- there are 3-4 wires in a casing that run through a switch, electrial outlets, light bulbs ect...... but the white one is the common or positive (the commons are usually all tied togther except for lights and sockets) and the black one is negtive and the one that is just a wire that is not covered is ground and the pink one is home run or just for curent switches and large apliances like a stove top and stuff lide that, the current runs from negitive to positive, and ground is for your safety!!! i hope that helps! and there are 3 masive wires about 1and a half in diameter that run from the electricty companys boxes to your house's breaker box and from the breaker it goes throught the house it is really a giant gig saw puzzle! simple

Answer 2

Electricity does not "travel through a wire".

Electricity is defined as: the energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor

What passes through the wire (also called a conductor) is electric CHARGE, with the driving force behind the passage being electric POTENTIAL (also known as voltage).

How it works:
- a potential difference is set up between the ends of a conductor by attaching a voltage source (like a generator or battery) to one end.
- this difference gives a "nudge" to the free electrons in the metallic conductor, making them vibrate a little more and bump into the next electron down the line.
- as the wavefront of energy is transferred through the free electrons, the measurable quantity of CURRENT (defined as charge-per-unit-time) can be observed.
- at the far end, the energy is translated back into something useful for the 'load' device ... which may or may not be actual current and voltage.

Source(s):
Electrical designer of synchronous, induction, direct current, and permanent magnet machines for 18 yea

Answer 3

To answer this, I need to say the generation of electricity.Electricity is generated in generating stations as alternating current.It is 3 phase production.That electricity reaches your home through electric conductors.As various conducting and controlloing equipments are installed in the electric circuitary,the electric charges can suitably be controlled..

Answer 4

Think of it this way. There is 50 extension cords running all over your house, inside the walls. Where ever you have an outlet is the end of one of those cords and in the basement at your electric panel is where the cords are all plugged in!

Answer 5

EMF or Electromotive force (voltage) goes out the "hot" wire and returns on the "neutral" wire to the panel. This reverses 60 times per second. (In the US) 50 times in Europe and others...

Answer 6

placed ceiling followers in the upstairs to entice and then in 2 corners of each and every room decrease and upload a floor vent with a close off toggle the nice and cozy temperature rises into the rooms and the followers will entice opposite the nice and cozy temperature or the cooling I easily have 2 mattress room window gadgets and they cool my 5 room and bath apt. high-quality because the downstairs followers move the cooling and close any heater vents i do and my cooling expenses me about 50 funds a month in the season

Answer 7

thru a wire.it circulate thru insulated conductors(wires).It flows positive(+)to negative(-).

Answer 8

wires and cords