P- 2- Electricity Flashcards
1
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- What is current
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- The flow of Electrical charge
- Measured in Amps
2
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_ What is needed to make electrical charge flow
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- Complete circuit
- Potential difference
3
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- What is potential difference
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- Force that pushes the charge- volt
4
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- What is the distribution of current around a full circuit
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- Even at every point
5
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- What is resistance
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- Anything that slows the flow down
- Measured in ohmes
6
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- What does current depend own
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- Potential difference and resistance
7
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What does total charge depend on
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- Current and time
- Q= It
- Charge flow = current x time
8
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What are the symbols of cell and resistor
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Cell - —-±||—–
Resistor ——| |——–
9
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What are the symbols for battery and variable resistor
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Battery ——±| |——-±| |——-
Variable resistor —|_/|
10
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What are the symbol for switch open and ammeter
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Switch open- ___./ ._____
Ammeter - A - in circle
11
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- What are the symbols for voltmeter and switch closed
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- Switch closed- __.__.___
- Voltmeter- —V—- In circle
12
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What are the symbols for filament lamp and diode
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Filament - —-x—- - In circle
Diode- —–|>|— In circle
13
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What re the symbols for fuse and LDR
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- Fuse - ——|——-|——-
LDR- —–|___|——–
14
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- Wat are the symbol;s for LED and thermistor
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// - LED- ---|>|-----
Thermistor—-|_/___|——-
_/
15
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- What is the formal for potential difference and current
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- Potential difference = Current x resistance
16
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- How can you investigate resistance factors
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- Wire length
- Attach crocodile clip to wire at 0cm
- Attach second crocodile clip to wire - writer down length between
- Close switch and mature current and PD
- Open switch and move along a fixed measurement and retest- repeat
- Use measurement and calculate resistance using formula
- Polt graph- should be directly proportionate
- IF not may be a systematic error e.g first clip not at 0
17
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- What its the ammeter
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- Measures current in amps flowing through a wore
- Placed in series with what you are doing
18
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- What is a voltmeter
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- Potential difference across test wire
- Must always be placed in parallel around what you are testing - not around any other
19
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- What happens in resonance of Ohomic conductors
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- It does not change with current
- e.g wire or resistor
- at constan temp current flowing is directly proportionate t potential difference
20
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- What happens in appliances where resistance changes
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- e.g diode and filament lam
- Filament- - transfers energy to thermal store - heats up - resistance increases with temperature - as current increases so does resistance
- Diode- Depends on direction of current - very high resistance if reversed
21
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what are I- v Characteristics
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- Refers to a graph which shows how current flowing through changes as potential difference increases
- Linear components I-v are straight ;owed-
-Non linear- Curved
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22
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- How can you test for the I-v Characteristics
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- Set up test circuit with variable resistor, component, ammeter, voltmeter, component and battery
- Begin to vary variable resistor- alters current flowing an potential difference
- Take several pairs of readings from ammeter and voltmeter- to see how potential difference varies as current varied- repeat and get average
- Swap over wires so its reversed
- Plot a graph of current against voltage
23
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- What do I-v Characteristic s look like for , ohmic conductors, filament lamps and diodes
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- Ohomic- Straight- linear
- Filament- Curved going both under and over
- Diode- Only appears in positive and steep
24
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What is LDR
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- Light dependant resistor
- Dependent on intensity of light
- Bright light causes resistance to fall
- Darkness - resistance is highest
- e.g Automatic night lights and burglar detectors
25
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-What is a thermistor
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- Temperature dependant resistor
- Hot conditions cause resistance to drop
- Cool conditions cause increase in resistance
- Good tematyre sectors e.g car engines
26
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What can sensing circuits be used for and how
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- Turn on or increase power to components depending on conditions
- Fixed resistor will always have the same potential difference as there connected in parallel
- PD is shared between thermistor and loop according to resistance - bigger resistance means more PD
- As it become shorter Resistance of thermistor decreases- more PD to fan- Fan goes faster when its hotter
27
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What are sires circuits
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- Different comments are connected in a line end to end, between =ve and -ve of power supply - except voltmeters
- If you remove or disconnect one component the circuit is broken- not very practical
- Measure quantities and test components
28
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- What are the characteristics of a sires circuit
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- Potential different is shared- always add unto source
- Current is equal everywhere - size of current is determined by total PD of cells and total resistance of circuits - I = V//R
- Resistance adds up- total resistance adds together to find ass- as they have to share PD- Total current is reduced when resistor is added - bigger resistance is the bigger its share
29
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- Give a worked example for finding current passing through as 20 volt circuit with one 2 Ohme resistor and a 3 homes resistor
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- Resistance total + 5 Ohmes
- I= V= R
20//5
+ 4A
30
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- What are parallel circuits
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- Each component is separate;y connected to +VE and -VE of Supply- except ammeters
- If you remove or add one nothing changes
- Most things connected this way
31
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- What are the characteristics of a parallel circuit
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- All components get full source of PD- PD same across all components- means all bulls are same brightness
- Current is shared- Total current = total of current in all other components
- Junctions where current splits or junctions- HAs to be equal to current leaving
- IF identical components are connected they all have the same current
- Adding a resistor reduces total resistance- IF you have two their total resistance is less than resistance of smallest of two resistor
32
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-How do you investigate the effect of adding resistors in Siries circuits
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- Need four identical resistors
- Build circuit using one resistor- make not of PD
- Measure current- Calculate resistance to measure current
- Add another resistor and measure current
- Repeat
- Plot
- Should follow linear positive
33
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- What can you do to investigate effect off restores in Parallel circuits
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- Set up parallel circuit
- Need four identical resistors
- Measure total current and calculate current using resistance- V being PD of battery
- Add restore sea repeat
- Plot graph
- Should follow non direct proportional negative lines- that follows the diminishing returns
34
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- What is alternating current
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- Current is constantly changing directions
_ Produced by alternating voltages- positive and negative is costly switching - Uk mains ac supply is 230 - 50 HZ- or cycles per seconds
35
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- What is direct current
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- Current laws flowing in same direction
- Created by direct voltage
- Batteries
36
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- How are most cables in plugs structured
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- 3 sperate wires - Core of copper and coloured plastic stating
- Colour of insulation on each cable shows purpose - always sa,e
37
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- What are the three parts of the club and there function
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- Natural wire - Blue- Complete circuit and carries away current- Normally flows in through live and out though neutral
- Live- Brown - Provides alternating potential difference- 230v- flows into
- Earth wire- green and yellow- Protecting wire and safety- stops appliance casing from becoming live- no current usually
38
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- How can live wire give a shock
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- Large potential differences produced across body and current flows through you
- Causes shock that may kill you
- Even if its off - there is still POD and a risk of a shock- Body would provide link and current flows through you
- Any connection between li e and earth can be dangerous. Link may create path top earth and huge current would flow- causing a fire
39
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- How is energy transferred
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- From cells and other courts
- Moving charge transfers energy as charge works against resistance
- Electrical appliances are designed to transfer energy to components
40
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- Give tow examples of how appliances
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- Kettles transfer electrical from mains into thermal to heating element
- handheld fan- Electric from battery into kinetic
- Not all useful- higher current causes higher amounts of thermal energy transfer
41
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- What does energy transferred depend on
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- Power
- Toal energy by an appliance depends how long the appliance is on for and its oiler
42
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- What is power
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- Is energy that it transferred per second
- More energy means more power
43
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- How can you work out energy transferred
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- Energy transferred = Power x time
E=Pt
44
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What is a power rating
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- labelled with maximum safe oiler they can operate at
- Maximum amount of energy transfer between stores per second
- Helps customer choose- lower power ratings- less electricity is uses- cheaper
- Higher power rating does not mean more energy is transferred - fails to address usefulness of energy transferred
45
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- What is potential difference
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- Energy transferred per charged passed
- When electrical charge goes through a change in potential difference then energy is transferred
- Energy supplied to charge at power source to raise it through a potential
- ## The charge gives up this energy where it falls through any potential drop in components
46
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- What is the formula for potential difference
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- Energy transferred = Charge flow x potential difference
E= QV
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47
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- What does a battery with a lager PD mean
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- Will supply more energy for every coulomb of charge which flows around it, because charge is raised higher at the start
48
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- How does power depend in current and potential difference
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- Power = Potential difference x current
- if you don’t know potential difference you can rearrange to get P= I2R
- R- resistance
49
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- How is electrify distributed
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- Via the national grid
- giant system of cables and transformers that covers Uk and connects power stations to consumers
- National grid transferred electrical power from power stations to demand
50
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- What does production have to meet
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- Demand
- usage changes throughout day- power stations have to keep up with this demand
- Can predict when demand is highest- e.g time of day or big event
- Many run far below maximum power output so they can always meet high demand
- Lots of power stations that are smaller can open up fast if in need
51
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- What does the national grid use
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- High potential difference and low current
- To transmit he amount of power you need either high
- Problem with high current is you lose loaf of energy to thermal loss
0 Most chapter to boost PD to 400,000 and keep current low
– mAke it very efficient
52
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- How is potential difference impacted by transformers
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- To get to such a high PD requires transformers as well and big pylons and huge insulators - but its still cheaper
- The transformer shave to step the potential difference up at one end and down to a usable level at another
53
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- How is potential difference increased and reduced
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- PD increased using step up transformer
- Reduced using step down transformer
