Hazards of Electricity 1. Electric Shock 2. Fire / Short Circuit 3. Electric Burns Confidential Slide Electric Shock It is sudden & accidental stimulation of the body’s nervous system by electric current. It is the result of passage of electric current through the human body Confidential Slide • Most widely recognised danger of electricity. • When a person standing on the ground touches a live wire‚ or touches a live tool or machine with poor insulation or hits a live cable‚ then a person
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Solar Absorbers and the Future of Electricity Solar Absorbers and the Future of Electricity By James Folta Electricity is what we use to power things at home or at school. You can probably look around right now and see an electrical outlet or two. Everything that we plug into one of these outlets uses electricity. But where does this electricity come from? Right now we have a few ways to make electricity. Some are better than others. There are some scientists who are trying to find
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The current electricity infrastructure in the Unites States consists of one way “communication” between the electric company and the homes receiving the electricity with the communication coming from the electric company to the homes. The current electricity infrastructure in the United States is more than 100 years old and because of this fact‚ it is outdated resulting in a great lack of efficiency. There is no way for the electricity company to obtain information from the individual homes pertaining
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Sakib Khan Electric Eels – Physics The animal that is usually known as electric eel is in fact not really an eel but a freshwater species related more to the carp family or catfish family. These unique freshwater predators got their name from the immense electrical charge that they can easily generate to stun or even kill their preys and dissuade predators. Electric eels can grow extremely large which usually can reach as high as 8 foot long and weigh a great amount of 45lbs. In addition to this
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Magnetic effect of electric current is one of the major effects of electric current in use‚ without the applications of which we cannot have motors in the existing world. A current carrying conductor creates a magnetic field around it‚ which can be comprehended by using magnetic lines of force or magnetic field lines. The nature of the magnetic field lines around a straight current carrying conductor is concentric circles with centre at the axis of the conductor. The direction of the magnetic field
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Train industry was one of the most important industries in the modern human culture since it was a very useful way to transport goods and people‚ which was the concern of many scientists in the last 2000 years. Matthew Murray and George Stephenson made great contributions in the train industry. Matthew invented the first steam powered locomotive train while George came up with the idea of coal transporting trains. Old trains were depending on steam for power. In 1829‚ the Rocket was the first steam
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An electric generator is basically an electric motor working backwards. An electric motor converts electrical energy into mechanical energy‚ and an electric generator converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. An electric generator looks almost identical to an electric motor. Each consists of a loop that is able to rotate in a magnetic field. The electric motor uses electrical energy to make the loops rotate which creates mechanical energy. In the electric generator it uses mechanical energy
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most electricity. If there are more coins in the pile‚ then the more electricity it can produce‚ because the more electrons you have‚ the more electricity you will get. Batteries are expensive‚ but you can make one for exactly 24 cents! In this experiment‚ you will make your own voltaic pile using pennies and nickels. In the data‚ we will see if the number of pennies and nickels will affect the number of voltage and current. Problem How many coins in the pile will make the most electricity? Hypothesis
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Course Title: BTEC First in Applied Science Unit 2: Energy and our Universe Tutor name: Assignment Title: Electricity Assignment: 2.3 Learner Name Start Date: Deadline: Scenario: You are the chief scientific officer for the National Grid. As part of your job you research ways of producing electricity and how this electricity can be transmitted efficiently to our homes. You provide advisory materials for the company and members of the public so your communication
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and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (or ERCOT) grid. Historically‚ transmission and distribution lines were owned by the same company‚ but over the last decade or so many countries have liberalized the electricity market in ways that have led to the separation of the electricity transmission business from the distribution business.[1] Transmission lines mostly use three-phase alternating current (AC)‚ although single phase AC is sometimes used in railway electrification systems. High-voltage
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