Jose Gerardo Farias Electricity Tuesday December 18 2012 France myp 2

1 ELECTRICITY 2 TYPES OF 3 USES OF ELECTRICITY

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and flow of electric charge. Electricity gives a wide variety of well-known effects, such as lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic induction and the flow of electrical current. In addition, electricity permits the creation and reception of electromagnetic radiation such as radio waves.

Static Electricity Static electricity is when electrical charges build up on the surface of a material. It is usually caused by rubbing materials together. The result of a build-up of static electricity is that objects may be attracted to each other or may even cause a spark to jump from one to the other. For Example rub a baloon on a wool and hold it up to the wall. Before rubbing, like all materials, the balloons and the wool sweater have a neutral charge. This is because they each have an equal number of positively charged subatomic particles (protons) and negatively charged subatomic particles (electrons). When you rub the balloon with the wool sweater, electrons are transferred from the wool to the rubber because of differences in the attraction of the two materials for electrons. The balloon becomes negatively charged because it gains electrons from the wool, and the wool becomes positively charged because it loses electrons. Current Electricity Current is the rate of flow of electrons. It is produced by moving electrons and it is measured in amperes. Unlike static electricity, current electricity must flow through a conductor, usually copper wire. Current with electricity is just like current when you think of a river. The river flows from one spot to another, and the speed it moves is the speed of the current. With electricity, current is a measure of the amount of energy transferred over a period of time. That energy is called a flow of electrons. One of the results of current is the heating of the conductor. When an electric stove heats up, it's because of the flow of current.

Electricity in our House Electricity comes to our house over big power lines. The electricity comes from a big power plant somewhere far away. Your parents actually have to pay for how much electricity is used. There is an electric meter outside of your house that keeps track of this. The more the lights are on or the TV is running, the higher the bill will be from the electric company. Once the power comes to our house, it gets sent out on wires to sockets in the walls. We can plug all sorts of things into these sockets and use the power from electricity. In our homes we power lights, air conditioning, televisions, ovens, and more from electricity. Without it, we'd be bored, hot, and sitting in the dark. Batteries Some electricity comes from batteries. Batteries used chemicals to store up electricity to be used in devices like cell phones, radio controlled cars, handheld video games, and flashlights. Batteries run out of power after a while and either need to be recharged or recycled. Remember to always recycle your batteries as there are dangerous chemicals in them!

. Electrcity helps us in lots of ways, It helps us watch television, play computer games and bathe. Without electrcity a lot of things we take for granted wouldn't be here today. Imagine living inn the dark with no central heating or television or computer? How bad would that be? It would be the middle ages all over again

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I learned what important is the electricity in our life, I learned which were the types of electricity nox I think that I know more about electricity and the uses that we can have with it, all those thing will help me a lot in my life. The types of electricity are: electric charge, electric current, electric field, eletric potential and electromagnets. Electricity hel us a los because the electricty turns on rge television without electricity we wont have light that why electricity is very veru helpful in our life.