How does electricity work?

Answer 1

Shocking experience

Answer 2

A fossil-fuel, solar-thermal, nuclear or biomass power station converts heat to electrical energy, and the faster the station burns fuel, assuming positively-sloped efficiency of conversion, the higher its power output. The output of a power station is usually specified in megawatts (millions of watts). The electrical energy is then sent over transmission lines to reach the consumers.

An electric current is a flow of electric charge, and its intensity is measured in amperes. Examples of electric currents include metallic conduction, where electrons flow through a conductor or conductors such as a metal wire, and electrolysis, where ions (charged atoms) flow through liquids. The particles themselves often move quite slowly, while the electric field that drives them propagates at close to the speed .

Answer 3

This flow of electrons is called electric current. Electric current is always going right back where it came from, in kind of a circle. The official name for this circle of flowing electricity is a "circuit."

There are a couple of different ways that this flow of electrons is used to make stuff happen.

The first is heat. If the electrons are flowing through something like a copper wire, they're pretty happy, because the wire is easy to get through ­ it offers little "resistance" to the flow of electrons. But if they're trying to get through something that "resists" the flow of electrons, they have to try harder to get through, and in all the pushing and shoving, they create heat. As a matter of fact, electricity can make something so hot that it actually starts to glow. Maybe you've seen the wires inside a toaster get red hot. That happens because they offer resistance to the flow of electrons, and so a flow of current makes them get hot.

Another use for electric heat is in regular light bulbs. Inside light bulbs is a very tiny wire. This wire is so skinny that the electrons have to crowd and squeeze to get through. It offers so much resistance that it gets hot enough to actually glow so brightly that you can see by it.

Another way we use electric current is for magnetism. Maybe you've wrapped a coil of wire around a nail, and connected both ends of the wire to a flashlight battery. If you do that, the nail will turn into a magnet. The reasons for that are pretty complicated, but we're all really glad it works that way. You see, electric motors work from the magnetism produced by electric magnets. The magnets are arranged in kind of a circle, and they pull the moving part of the motor around and make it turn. Electric motors are used all over the world to push, pull, move, lift and pump just about everything

Answer 4

Have you ever gone near a gigantic Power Line/ Plant? If you have then you must have heard that gently but deadly humming sound that the lines emit when electricity pass through them. That sound is as a result of High Voltage which is due to the fast movement of Electrons and Protons in any conductor of Electricity. Electricity works due to the movement of Electrons and Protons.

Answer 5

Electricity is a form of energy.
Energy is the capacity to do work.
Thus electricity does work.

Energy can be transformed from one form to another. So, electrical energy can be converted into heat(in geysers, irons etc by making it flow through high resistance wires, same in bulbs only it gets so hot that it emits light.)

Answer 6

Get a book on the subject from the library try introduction to electrical energy, start with direct current or voltic cell type series.

Other source is the Internate.

Various things work differently.

Answer 7

Electricity (from Greek ήλεκτρον (electron) "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. Together with magnetism, it constitutes the fundamental interaction known as electromagnetism. It includes many well-known physical phenomena such as lightning, electromagnetic fields and electric currents, and is put to use in industrial applications such as electronics and electric power.

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Answer 8

Electricity is flow of electrons from higher to a lower potential i.e. energy level.

Answer 9

The electrons flow in opposite directions. According to Ohm's law V(voltage) is directly proportional to I (current). V=IR, where R is the resistance a constant. Due to the resistance to the flow of electron, a current of A (ampere) is produced.

Answer 10

electricity mainly works by the flow of charged particles.
it is basically the flow of charges electrons.
when sufficient potential(energy) is supplied, the electrons acquire charge and flow fom a place of higher charge to a place of lower charge.
this is similar to that of flowing of air from a high-presusure area to a low-pressure area.
these charged electrons travel through charge-conducting substances, normally the wires, and is distributed.

Answer 11

Electricity is formed when one electron jumps from one atom to another then to another