Electric Potential Flashcards
What is the electrical energy stored in the battery or cell?
Electrical potential energy
The higher the electrical potential of a group of electrons, the ____ the electric current.
Larger
What to do electrons do as they move along a circuit?
They “drop off” all of their potential energy before returning to the energy source
What does a volt metre do? Where is it placed?
Measures electric potential and is placed in parallel
What is: when measured across the source you are comparing the energy of electrons upon leaving the source to that of them returning?
Voltage output
What is: when measured across the load you are measuring the amount of energy it uses by comparing the energy of the electrons entering the load to that of leaving?
Voltage drop
What is energy needed to start or run a load in joules per second or Watts?
Electric power
What is determined by the amount of current flowing due to an applied voltage?
Power
Increase the voltage, _____ current and power.
Increase
