Electricity

What Is Electricity?
• A form of energy made
up of charges that can
produce light, heat, or
motion
 Kinds of Electricity
Static Current
• An electric charge • The flow of electric
charges carried
that collects or through a material
builds up on the such as wire or other
surface of an conductors
object • Examples
– Power lines
• Examples – Computers
– Shocking – Appliances

– Lightening
 Conductors and
Insulators
Conductors Insulators
• Any material that • Materials that do
allows electric not allow
charges to move electric charges
through it to flow freely
• Examples: through them
– Metals (esp. • Examples:
copper) – Wood
– Your body – Glass
– Electric wires – Rubber