1 Electrici ty Generatio n with Magnets or Lemons
Dec 16, 2015
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If you want to do something useful - you need energy
We feel tired when we run out of energy
So we eat to give us energy.
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When we eat
we can walk, think, run, lift, turn, push, pull, and ------
We need energy to work and play.
Our energy comes from food.
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Without electricity - -
We might use Candles Coal fires Semaphore to
send messages Piano - - -
Without electricity our lives would be very different.
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What is electricity?
It is the movement of very, very tiny particles called electrons.
As the tiny, tiny particles move they carry energy
Electricity flows through wires
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How big are electrons? How many electrons in a piece of
copper wire 1mm thick and 10cm long?100,000,000,000,000,000,000
One hundred million million million or one hundred billion billion
Electrons are very, very small
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Electricity transports energy from one place to another
For this we need:
• A complete circuit made of conductors with lots of electrons
• Something to provide energy to push the electrons round the circuit
• To where we want to use it.
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Why is electricity important?
It can make things work.
It is easy to move the energy around using wires
to just where you want it!
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How is electricity made?
We need something to provide energy to push the electrons around the circuit.
2 main choices:
A battery A generatoror
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A battery- uses chemistry to release
energy
Portable Cheap
only store a fixed amount of energy big, heavy batteries are needed to store lots of energy
In a car a large battery is used to start the engine and light the lamps.
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Generators
Use energy to make electricity
A moving magnet is able to push the electrons along a wire.
The energy to move the magnet is carried by the electricity,
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We can generate electricity
- by moving a powerful magnet through a coil of wire.
coil
magnet
switchlamp
bulb
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What have we learned?
Energy makes things work. Electricity can carry energy
to where we need it. Electricity can be made using
1. a battery2. a generator.