Questions tagged [batteries]
Devices to store chemical energy and convert it to electrical energy.
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Is (DC/battery) voltage a result of charge? or energy? or both?
Backstory: I’m a software engineer just getting into electronics and it seems that everything I’ve ever been told about electricity my whole life is a candy-coated lie. I can’t find consistent logical ...
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How does resistance *really* work? (DC, battery, LED, atoms, electrons)
Backstory: I’m a software engineer just getting into electronics and it seems that everything I’ve ever been told about electricity my whole life is a candy-coated lie. I can’t find consistent logical ...
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What is difference between current and voltage? [on hold]
If current passes through the bulb not using it up then how battery becomes weak after sometime?
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Kirchoff's rule DC circuits [closed]
I understand how to solve for the unknown variables but I have trouble labeling the currents and finding the current and junction equations
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Batteries operation [closed]
Why anions created from ionization are reduced to neutral atoms since the electron affinity of the elements which are the anions with one extra electron is negative?
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Why are(n’t) rechargeable batteries damaged by partial charging?
Originally asked in ElectricalEngineering.SE, but I was told Physics.SE might be a better place to ask.
Over the years, I've come across websites and people with different opinions on the "correct" ...
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Misconception about flow of charges
Let's say I have a 5V battery connected in the manner shown in the diagram. I've tried this setup with all sorts of things like pouring brine(salt water) into the soil to decrease its resistance so ...
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Does current flow when you connect a battery to earth?
Let's say that the earth has 0V and everything is ideal,
does current still flow and why?
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Potential Difference of a battery - What does it mean?
I have studied current electricity for a while now. When I look back at basic concepts, I am quite clear about what current, electron, resistance is. But I cannot imagine about the potential ...
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Electrons and wires [duplicate]
The electrons that carry the electric energy are in wires or in the battery ? battery provides a potential difference but from where electrons flow to make for example a bulb light. If they flow from ...
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From where electrons flow to make a bulb light?
Suppose we have the "basic" stuff like a battery 2 piece of wire and a bulb. Battery has a potential difference. But from where electrons flow to make the bulb light? from wire or from battery or from ...
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Question about circuit with two cells [closed]
Edited - could someone explain how you treat a circuit with two cells in respect to circuit laws and also whether the section in the middle is in parallel or in series.
Second Edit: I’ve researched ...
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How is energy conserved in a theoretical circuit where you put a lightbulb and two rechargeable batteries like… (diagram included)
In the beginning the first battery is fully charged, and the second is fully discharged. As the circuit is connected the discharging battery recharges a dead second battery and light is emitted from ...
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What possible advantage could there be in connecting several identical batteries in parallel? [duplicate]
In two-cell flash light,the batteries are usually connected in series. Why not connect them in parallel?
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$V = 4 volts$ but $I = 0$
Recently in my school, I tried to generate electricity from plants in a flower pot with copper and Zinc electrodes. The Potential difference in the voltmeter read 2 to 3 volts but when I connected the ...
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What force is responsible for the movement of electrons in a current caused by an electrochemical source?
From what I have read, batteries provide an electrochemical potential that causes electrons to move from the negative terminal through a conductor to the positive terminal.
I have read numerous ...
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Hydrogen oxygen fuel cells
In hydrogen - oxygen fuel cell, the electrode used is carbon electrode.Hydrogen is passed through through the anode compartment where it is oxidised. Oxygen is passed through the cathode compartment ...
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How a battery maintains the current in the circuit? [duplicate]
How a battery maintains the current in the citcuit? Iwant to know each and every step of this process mathematically and theoretically also.
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Confusion about calculating resistances & terminal voltage
I'm looking at an exercise where a battery is powering two parallel light bulbs. Given are the battery's EMF ($12.0 V$) and its terminal voltage in this particular circuit ($11.8 V$), as well as the ...
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Using a significantly large metallic sphere, could we draw out the electrons from the negative terminal of a battery?
I've pored over many articles on electrochemical cells, and I understand that on the oxidation side of a zinc-copper Daniell cell, the anode is highly negatively charged because zinc participates in ...
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How are batteries affected on planes? [closed]
I'm currently an engineer and was fascinated at how technology came to be and how we were able to find out that we can take energy and essentially store it for a later time. I was thinking about ...
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In a Radioisotope betavoltaic cell, does the amperage or voltage decay?
In a tritium-powered betavoltaic cell, the power output obviously decreases as the tritium decays. Is it the voltage, amperage, or both that would decay?
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Why is the electric potential difference independent of resistance?
According to wikipedia the definition of electric potential difference is as follows:
The difference in electric potential between two points (i.e., voltage) is defined as the work needed per unit ...
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is this the reason why current doesn't flow over a resistance if there is another path without resistance? [duplicate]
Let's suppose that a single battery is connected with a wire, which does not have resistance. Electrons will start to flow , in reality, with a wire with resistance, a potential difference would be ...
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How can a battery 'come back to life'?
Earlier today, one of my family drained our car's battery by accident, by leaving the lights on too long. It wouldn't start at all, so they had to walk back home from where the car was parked (a few ...
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What determines the voltage in a battery?
This diagram problem has got me thinking about what determines the voltage in a battery. At school, we were taught this method of giving a value of voltage to points in a circuit. However, I do not ...
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Hardest circuit diagram
I have provided an example of the type of problem I am having issues with. In the given diagram, the resistances and batteries are identical and the batteries do not have internal resistances(for the ...
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Realistic energy output of a battery
An answer from the post "Battery life with hot and cold wires" talks about Peukert's law related to the battery capacity. Now, within the scope of undergrad electromagnetism courses, the following are ...
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Compare the time the power sources in these circuits will last
I am trying to conceptualize the time which a battery will last in a given circuit. Below is an example from which I will explain the questions which I am struggling with :
Lets begin by asking this ...
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Potential divider formula
Hi, does applying resistance to a potential divider affect the output voltage? For example, if I were to put resistor R midway across a variable resistor would output voltage still = (R1/R1 + R2) x E? ...
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What is the difference between EMF of a battery, its potential difference and the current supplied by the battery?
Now, I know that emf is measured using an ammeter, while potential difference is measured using a voltmeter. But why is that so? What do we mean when we say the emf of the battery is say, 3V, and the ...
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What exactly is “voltage drop” across a circuit element?
what exactly is "voltage drop" across a circuit element? I don't quite understand what this means.
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As there is a potential drop across resistance, then why in parallel circuits the voltage across resistances is same as that of battery?
In textbooks it’s taught that in parallel circuits the voltage across resistances is same as that of battery but after that we also read the concept of potential drop across resistances, which creates ...
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Electrical circuits and calculating resistance [closed]
Can anyone give me some ideas about how to simplify this circuit....
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Why does the full PD across a battery manifest itself across a break in a circuit at any point?
Consider the following circuit:
I want to know why the full pd of the battery can be measured across the break if a voltmeter was connected. Surely when the whole circuit was closed the charges at ...
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Charging a battery
So we have a charger outputting V volts and $I$ Amperes and two rechargable batteries of the same capacity $Q$ coulombs but different emf's $V_1\&V_2$.
Which battery would charge faster?
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DC Battery Charging Question
I have a 7.4v LiIon that hold 1450ma. I have a variable DC bench power supply that I can crank up or down and adjust as needed. I want to quickly charge the battery and noticed if I adjust the ...
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Does current get divided between single cells or only through parallel connections?
So let's say I have 2.5KW motor that runs at 48V, drawing peak around 55A. Let's also say that I have an 18650 battery bank, which consists of 13 batteries in series, to give me 48V, and 4 parallel ...
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How could a bulb light up if aĺl the voltage is lost in the resistor?
I recently came up with this slight confusion about voltage loss in resistors/resistance. So for example My circuit has a 12V battery, a 2 Ohms resistor and a Bulb. If we use the V=I.R formula then a ...
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How does the internal resistance of a cell vary with temperature?
Does anyone have a physics explanation to why the internal resistance of a battery decreases as the temperature increases?
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What is the potential difference inside a metal conducting wire?
When a conducting wire is connected to a battery, potential difference is set up inside the battery.
But, what is the case of a simple conducting wire which has free electrons inside it(without ...
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Conductors in electric circuits And electrostatics
I know from electrostatics that electric field inside a conductor is zero. I also know that there must be electric field inside a conductor carrying current in electric circuits. I am confused.
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Why can you assume the current remains the same after changing resistance?
In my physics textbook there is a question about a circuit:
In question b) We find out the current in the circuit is 0.003A. This is before the voltmeter is added.
In question c) a voltmeter is ...
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Creation of electric field inside a conductor
My book says that as soon as the two ends of a conducting wire touches the two terminals of a battery, it generates an electric field inside the conductor. Why?
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Why can't we add the emf of two batteries in a parallel circuit?
My teacher told me that two batteries' emf cannot be added in a parallel circuit but can be added in a series circuit. However I can't seem to fully grasp why and I think there may be some loopholes ...
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Why does a battery powered radio's volume go down as batteries age, even when the batteries' voltage is constant?
A set of batteries are used for a long period of time. Explain why the volume of a radio is low even though the voltage of the batteries is the same as when they were first bought.
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Factors affecting Battery Voltage
How do batteries produce a certain voltage, such as 1.5V or 9 V? From what I understand, battery EMF comes from oxidation of the anode, which releases electrons that can flow through a circuit. But ...
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Ideal Capacitor (Introductory Physics Question)
If I have a simple setup of a open circuit with a battery (constant battery) , resistor, and uncharged capacitor, and then I close the switch of circuit, and keep it closed until the capacitor is ...
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At an atomic level, what happens when you connect two batteries in series so that their voltages are added?
I can't for the life of me figure this out. I feel like i'm missing some crucial detail about how batteries work.
Imagine two batteries connected in series, like this:
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Voltage is changing. Then why do we use a constant value (if given as battery is 3V)in doing sums.?
Actually the potential difference changes throughout each part in a circuit and the electrons dont have the same energy (say the battery is 3V) throughout the circuit.then why ,when do we use V=3V as ...
