Challenge: One Week Without Television In today’s society we find it difficult to pry ourselves away from technology. Everywhere we go we find our selves immerse within our cell phones and tablets. Even more so we rely on our television to provide us with instant entertainment. So naturally taking on a challenge that required me to remove Television from my life completely for one week would prove to be difficult. At first I thought it nothing and decided to take this challenge over thanksgiving
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it worked. In 1807‚ Humphry Davy constructed a practical battery (the picture will be immediately familiar to anyone who works with UPS systems)‚ and demonstrated both incandescent and arc light. • Volta’s famous bi-metalic frog twitch (I did this one myself as a boy...) • Davy’s battery 1820 Hans Christian Örsted (1777-1851) discovers that an electric current can cause a compass needle to change directions. • Örsted’s experiment 1831 Michael Faraday (1791-1867) builds the first electric generator
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machines because they have stand-by functions that consume electricity even when they are turned off. * Fill your dishwasher efficiently and limit the number of times you run it. * Don’t put furniture and other things in front of heating and air conditioning vents. * Keep doors and windows closed when heat or air conditioning is on. * Put in a programmable thermostat which will keep your house at the right temperature day and night. Programmable thermostats can reduce cooling and
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Electricity is important to life. A vast number of machines which are invented nowadays cannot be operated without it. As a matter of fact‚ electricity is used mostly in four main areas: industry‚ public health‚ media and transportation. First of all‚ electricity plays an integral part in industry. Thanks to the invention of electricity‚ a lot of equipment has been invented including computers‚ subways‚ bulbs‚etc .... .Electricity is the crucial factor in operating most devices. As a matter of
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CHAPTER - 12 ELECTRICITY HOTS Questions for Practice 1. Name a substance whose resistance almost remains unchanged by increase of temperature. 2. Name two special characteristics of heater coil. 3. A wire of resistance 4 ohms is bent to form a circle. What is the resistance between two diametrically opposite ends? 4. How does the resistance of a conductor change if its temperature is increased? 5. A current of 4A flows in a wire of resistance 60 ohms. Calculate electrical energy consumed in 2 minutes
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Windmill Electricity | | Mankind been harnessing the wind’s energy for many years. From Holland to traditional farms around the world‚ windmills were used in the past for pumping water through primative irrigation systems or used to grind grain. Then‚ the wind turned large "sails" which were connected by a long vertical shaft that was attached to a grindnig machine or to a wheel that turned and drew water from a well. Today’s turbines - can utilize the energy of the wind to turn large metal
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What is Magnetism? Properties of Magnets: Magnet: any material that attracts iron and materials that contain iron Magnets attract iron and materials that contain iron. magnets attract or repel other magnets. In addition‚ one part of a magnet will always point north when allowed to swing freely. Magnetic Poles: Magnetic Pole: any magnet with 2 ends‚ each is called a magnetic pole. Magnetic poles that are unlike attract each other and magnetic poles that are alike repel each other. Magnetic
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Electricity was first researched by Thales of Miletos around 600BC. He conducted a few experiments on static electricity in which he believed that friction made amber become magnetized. Other than the fact that people knew that eels produced electric shocks‚ electricity was little more than an intellectual curiosity for over 2000 years. Until 1600 when someone from England discovered the lodestone effect when amber with static would attract small objects towards it. In the 18th century‚ Benjamin
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HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY Depite what you have learned‚ Benjamin Franklin did not "invent" electricity. In fact‚ electricity did not begin when Benjamin Franklin at when he flew his kite during a thunderstorm or when light bulbs were installed in houses all around the world. The truth is that electricity has always been around because it naturally exists in the world. Lightning‚ for instance‚ is simply a flow of electrons between the ground and the clouds. When you touch something and get a shock
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Lecture Notes: Basic Electricity Fall 2011 This course module introduces the basic physical models by which we explain the flow of electricity. The Bohr model of an atom – a nucleus surrounded by shells of electrons traveling in discrete orbits – is presented. Electrical current is described as a flow of electrons. Ohm’s law – the relationship between voltage‚ current and electrical resistance – is introduced. Learning Objectives Understanding the basic principles of electricity is a foundational
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