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PS Chapter 19:Electr

PS Chapter 19: Electricity Coach Leach

TermDefinition
Static Electricity The accumulated electric charge on an object.
Electric Force The field force between tow charged objects.
Law of Conservation of Charge The principle that states that charge cannot be created or destroyed but only transferred between objects.
Conductor A material through which electric charge moves easily.
Insulator A material through which electric charge does not move easily.
Current Electricity Electricity involving moving electric charges.
Electrical Circuit The loop through which current electricity can flow.
Resistance The property of matter indicating the degree to which the material slows down the flow of charge carriers.
Ohm's Law The law that states that the current in a circuit is directly related to the voltage and inversely related to the resistance.
Series Circuit A circuit with only one path that electric current can take.
Parallel Circuit A circuit with multiple paths that electric current can take.
Short Circuit An unintended path for an electric current.
Circuit breaker An electrical safety device consisting of an automatic switch that opens when there is too much current in a circuit.
Fuse An electrical safety device that opens the circuit by melting when an overheated condition occurs due to excessive current.
Electric power The work per second done or produced by an electrical system.
Resistor An electrical device that slows down electric current by converting electrical energy into other forms, such as thermal energy.
Voltage The force that moves electric charge carriers through an electrical circuit; also called electric potential difference.
Alternating Current Electric current in which the charge carriers change direction periodically.
Electric Field A three-dimensional region around a charged object that will apply a force on other charged objects within that region.
Grounding The act of providing a path for electrical charge to move into the earth.
Direct Current Electric current in which electric charges move in only one direction.
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