Electrifing Electricity

The first thing I asked myself was, “How many kinds of electricity are there?” I found out that there were three different kinds of basic electricity. They are static electricity, alternating current, and direct current. Static electricity is electricity at rest. It’s made by friction. Friction can break electrons apart from certain atoms. Some things, because of their atoms, tend to lose atoms and are positively charged. Some tend to gain atoms and are negatively charged. Direct current is an electrical current and goes in one way. It is used in batteries and cars.

Alternating current is another electrical current that alternates its direction. If there wasn’t alternating current there wouldn’t be light, computers, and most electrical appliances.

Another category in electricity is magnetism. Magnetism is the attraction of objects to a magnet. Magnets work li

Most metals are attracted to magnets, like iron and steel. Aluminum, brass, and copper are not attracted to magnets. Non-metals, like plastic, wood, and clothes, aren’t attracted to magnets either. Magnets are helpful to us in moving metals in a junkyard and in operating a car.

Another thing in electricity is circuits and conductors. I should probably tell you what a circuit and a conductor is. Well, a conductor is anything that electricity, heat, or sound can pass through. And circuit is electricity passing through a wire or a conductor in a circle continually until the circle is broken. One way to find out if an object is a conductor is to perform this simple experiment. Take a battery, three wires, your object that you want to test, and a small light bulb. Then put two wires on both sides of the battery. After doing that take one of the wires that is on the battery and hook the free end of the wire onto the bulb contact. Now, take the last wire put it on the other bulb contact. Then put the two free wires on the sides of the object. If the bulb lights up it’s a conductor. This is

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