Transfer of Energy - Electricity Vocabulary

Electric Current

• A flow of electricity through a conductor

• a path through which electricity can flow

• a device that can open or close a circuit

• an object in an electrical circuit that resists the flow of energy

Resistor

• A flow of electricity through a conductor

• a path through which electricity can flow

• a device that can open or close a circuit

• an object in an electrical circuit that resists the flow of energy

Switch

• A flow of electricity through a conductor

• a path through which electricity can flow

• a device that can open or close a circuit

• an object in an electrical circuit that resists the flow of energy

Circuit

• A flow of electricity through a conductor

• a path through which electricity can flow

• a device that can open or close a circuit

• an object in an electrical circuit that resists the flow of energy

A device that produces alternating current by spinning an electric coil between the poles of a magnet; changes motion into electrical energy

• electric current

• resistor

• electromagnet

• generator

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the transfer of energy though space.

• electric current

• radiation

• condutor

• insulator

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A material through which heats or electricity flows easily.

• electric current

• radiation

• condutor

• insulator

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A material that slows or stops the flow of energy, such as thermal energy, electricity and sound.

• electric current

• radiation

• condutor

• insulator