Electrifying Facts Flashcards
Material that electrons can move through?
Conducter
Circuit with two or more branches for current to flow?
Parallel circuit
Flow of electrons through a conductor?
Electric current
Made of series and parallel circuits
Complex circuit
Poor conductor of electricity
Insulator
Unit for measuring rate of electron flow in a circuit
Ampere
Rate at which a device coverts electrical energy to another form of energy
Power
Path of electric conductors
Circuit
Electric charge built up in one place
Static electricity
Device that detects electric charges
Electroscope
Opposition to the flow of electricity
Resistance
Electric circuit where current flows through all parts of the circuit
Series circuit
Unit to measure electric potential
Volt
Object: charged particle. Area around the object?
Electric field
Object: charged particle. Area around the moving object?
Magnetic field