The study of the presence and flow of electric charge. Charges, currents, fields, potentials.
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What happens when non-equal voltages are put in parallel?
If two batteries, say 2 volts and 5 volts, are connected in parallel, are there any problems? The higher voltage will then want to flow out, but also towards the lower 2 volt battery end, right?
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Increasing Amps [closed]
I am not sure if this is the place to post this, but both physists and electricians should be able to help here, so I am going to cross post with DIY (sorry if this really annoys people - I know it ...
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What are the concepts and explanation to these questions? [closed]
I'm looking through my old quiz, and I don't understand these concepts. Could someone explain the concepts to me so that I can answer these questions?
1) Consider a 3,000 Ohm resistor cmposed of a ...
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Why should a battery not give current in order to measure EMF?
Emf is the "potential difference (PD) across the terminals of a battery when it is giving no current to the circuit."
What does "when it is giving no current mean"? Will the PD across the terminals ...
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Circuits using generators and cells and capacitors [closed]
This question was in a science worksheet we had, the description read as follows:
Tim has designed a generator that uses wind power and provides 9V. He decides to design a circuit using diodes ...
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Resistance of a copper wire [closed]
Resistance of a copper wire is 20ohm. If the diameter of the wire is 5mm and length 1ohm. Find the resistivity of the copper.
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Software for electric schemes [migrated]
I am looking for an open source software for creating electric schemes. Could you, please, recommend your favorite programs? Also, it will be better if your programm can do other schemes (for ...
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Can Earth's Magnetic Field Create Electricity?
If the earth has a magnetic field, can it, in theory, be run through a conductive metal coil to create electricity?
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The nature of resistance at copper wire terminations
Speaker wire consists of twisted copper strands, around AWG 22 thru 10. As good consumers know, one must consider resistance when wiring speakers. How do the wire terminations contribute to the ...
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Contact electricity and photoelectric effect
Most universities provide an experiment about the photoelectric effect to determine $h$ by measuring the stop voltage against the light frequency and calculating the slope $h/e$.
But mostly they also ...
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What is a “gravitational cell”?
I am not a physicist, and I don't understand the details of electromagnetism. Anyhow, I was looking for how the batteries work in Google. So, I came across this article: "How batteries work: A ...
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Volts, Amps, and Practical Electrical Knowledge
I've heard people say that high amperage or high voltage is dangerous to humans-aren't they both? And what are the advantages to high amperage versus high voltage? And how do you generate one or the ...
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The potentiality of the electric field
Could you, please, explain me using just words why electric the field is potentially? I know the proof using integral: $A = \int_{12}q\overrightarrow{E}\overrightarrow{dr} = ...
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Voltmeter forming a closed circuit
A battery is connected to a 10Ω resistor as shown in Figure 2. The emf (electromotive force) of the battery is 6.0 V.
When the switch is open the voltmeter reads 6.0 V and when it is closed it ...
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How Special Relativity causes magnetism
So my physics teacher assigned us an article about how special relativity causes magnetism in a wire with a current, even with the low drift velocities of electrons in a current.
It seemed that the ...
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Why does increasing the temperature of a thermistor decrease it's resistance?
Surely, upon an increase in temperature, the atoms within the thermistor would vibrate with more energy and therefore more vigorously, hence making the electrons flowing through the electric circuit ...
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Speakers and Static from Hands
Why is it that when you touch the a bare male end of a speaker feed that the speaker makes hissing noises? Is it just (eddy?) currents running through you?
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Different batteries connected in parallel
If we have 2 batteries one of emf x and the other is of emf y and we connect them in series we get an effective emf of x+y.
But what if we connect them in parallel, how to calculate the emf now?
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Do black holes have charges?
Do black holes have charges? If so, how would they be measured? Also, does electricity behave the same way? Black holes affect photons, which are carriers of EM radiation, so do black holes have any ...
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Simple ohms law on a battery ? Paradox or conceptual error?
Suppose we have a regular pencil battery which supplies DC voltage $V$. Say we take copper wire and connect the ends of the battery to an $R$ ohms resistance.
Then Ohm's law tells use the current in ...
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Why don't electric workers get electrocuted when only touching one wire? [duplicate]
I know that when electricians work on the poles on the streets, if they only touch one wire at a time they will be fine. However, from my understanding, the negative wire is connected to a large ...
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Why does the comb attract the pieces of papers if they're neutral?
When we rub our hairs with a comb, and then try to attract small pieces of paper, they're attracted by the comb. The pieces of the paper were not electrified before they were attracted. Then they ...
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Early Concepts in Relation with the Forces Produced When Certain Pairs of Objects are Rubbed Together
It was found centuries ago that these materials: wool cloth and paraffin wax, glass rod and silk cloth when rubbed against each other attracted one another. While two glass rods when rubbed against ...
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Electric Circuit with 3 objects [closed]
A light bulb designed to dissipate 75 W when it is connected to a 125-V source is in a circuit that also contains a 1850-W, 125-V hot plate and an 875 W, 125-V coffee maker. The circuit is designed so ...
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What types of materials can be electrically charged by rubbing?
What types of materials can be electrically charged by rubbing? Is there a certain type of materials in which static electricity can be produced by rubbing together two different materials?
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Capacitor Charging and Discharging when connected to the ground
When we charge a capacitor using a battery and then remove the battery, the plates of capacitor becomes charged. One holds positive charge and the other one gets equal negative charge. o. k. ?
Now ...
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Definition of electric charge and proper explanation
Is there a definition of electric charge and proper explanation of it?
It is said "Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when close to other ...
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Charging Glass Rods
When we rub two glass rods with their respective pieces of silk cloth, the two glass rods would repel each other. What if we rub the glass rod against the other glass rod? Will they repel each other? ...
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Definition of Static Electricity
The result of an imbalance of electrons between objects is called static electricity. It is called "static" because the displaced electrons tend to remain stationary after being moved from one ...
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Capacitors discharging in series [duplicate]
If you connect positive plate of a charged capacitor to ground, it doesn't get discharged. Now consider $4$ capacitors of equal capacitance connected in series to a $10\, \mathrm{V}$ battery. Connect ...
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Relativistic charge density contraction in a closed loop
I have heard that magnetism is a relativistic effect of electricity. The law says that charge is conserved, only distances are shrunk. So, I cannot add more charge to increase density. When we have an ...
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Electric shock from a power line [duplicate]
A bird perches on a bare high power line and nothing happens to it. A man standing on ground touches the same line and gets a fatal shock. why?
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How can Ohm's law be correct if superconductors have 0 resistivity
Ohm's law states that the relationship between current ( I ) voltage ( V ) and resistance ( R ) is
$$I = \frac{V}{R}$$
However superconductors cause the resistance of a material to go to zero, and ...
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Voltage of open circuit
A battery with emf $\varepsilon$ and internal resistance $r$ is connected
with a resistor $R$ in the following open circuit. What is the voltage $V_{ab}=V_a-V_b$?
The answer is $- ...
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Is it possible create current by spinning a charged sphere?
If we have a sphere which has $σ$ surface charge density and rotate it in axis z will this create current ? Is it possible without any potential difference ?
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Light bulbs, Wattage meaning? [closed]
Light bulbs, Wattage meaning?
Two incandescent bulbs (120 V, 25 Watt) and (120 V, 500 Watt) connected to the same batteries.
Which one shines brighter? And why?
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Joule heating due to the (slow) electron drift velocity?
I understand the concept of why the signal speed is higher than the electron drift velocity, but I can't understand the concept of joule heating. If electrons move slow then how do they produce a lot ...
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Why do aqueous solutions always “have to be” electrically neutral?
I was reviewing some analytical chemistry and stumbled upon a section that explained the imperfection of using a salt bridge.
It said that the using dissimilar ions is a problem because in, for ...
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The electrical field of a conductive sphere containing a charge - gounded vs not grounded
Let's suppose we have a sphere but unlike theoretical ones it'll has have some thickness say $\Delta r$ and inner radius $R$. What I was wondering about is how will it behave if we place some charge ...
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How to design a AC/DC generator and motor? [closed]
Through electrodynamics mechanics learning, it is possible to design a simple and elegant design for the following four machines:
1. AC generator
2. AC motor
3. DC generator
4. DC motor
I have some ...
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Current between supeconducting rings
How to calculate the current between two superconducting rings with radius r separated by a distance d?
Please note that being unfamiliar to the concept of superconducting rings, I can't approach ...
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How electricity, and generating electricity works on the atomic level?
I am trying to understand the basics physics as to how electricity works.
Unfortunately it seems most online material is either complex full blown mathematical equations, or water pump analogies.
I ...
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Producing electricity from all wavelengths of electromagnetic spectrum
Is it possible to produce electricity from all wavelengths of electromagnetic spectrum beside visible light ?Like using gamma rays or x-rays .
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Is this series or parallel? [closed]
How do you find I? and please explain which resistors are in parallel and which are in series? ("M" and ">" are resistors)
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Nature of electricity [duplicate]
Suppose a lightning strikes and there is an iron rod and a coconut tree. How does the electricity know that rod is the least resistant path before hand.
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AC passed to a DC motor
What would happen when an alternating current (AC) is passed to a DC motor? And a direct current (DC) passed to an AC motor?
Will it work or not?
What will happen to it?
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Static discharge out of 3 volts button battery
I am starting to get interested in static electricity
I have found this which is very cool but I do not know how I can control the output voltage.
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Why isn't this capacitor charging?
Let's say you have a parallel plate capacitor and you connect one plate to the positive terminal of a battery and the other plate to the negative end. So this is like a static situation, you have a ...
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Why there is no “Edison” unit in physics? [closed]
In the popular culture the XIX-XX century competition between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla is well-known. The example could be the Prestige movie, where there are some "Edison's agents" who sabotage ...
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How much of current flows through a bird sitting on a power line?
I've been googling for hours and went through over a hundred answers. Now, some say the bird doesn't form a closed loop, some say the current is so small that it doesn't kill the bird. From as much as ...
