Light it up

This is the light that hangs in my room. This light is also connected to a fan. The light that is on the fan is very bright. The reason for this is because there is a lot of voltage flowing through the light which causes the light to be so bright through the lightbulb. The way that my light and fan are connected are through a parallel circuit. The reason for this is so both the light and the fan can both function to their highest potential while on. In a parallel circuit the full amount of energy is given to whatever is using the battery and since it is in a parallel, both get the full amount of energy and can take their full potential. 

Electric Billl

My parents complain about the electric bill being too high all the time. They always complain about saving energy in the house to lower their electric bill so that they dont have to pay as much money as they do currently on their electric bill. Due to their complaining, I have challenged my parents that I can lower their electric bill by twenty dollars after only one month of chaning the way I do things in the house. I will use the big appliances less like the fridge, washer, and dryer less because those things drain the most energy because they use excess cooling or heating which uses a lot of energy. 

Battery Train

This is a battery from my earphones. The batteries are set in a way in which they are faced opposite ways next to each other. The reason for this is because batteries produce the charge that keeps the earphones running at the speed at which they run. Both is these batteries are a 1.5 volt battery and there are two of them so together they create a 3 volt charge to the earphones. The reason why they are faced opposite ways like this is because the charges are like water; they flow. Charge, like water flows from an area of high potential to an area of low potential. The batteries need to flow, so that is why the batteries are in this formation. This formation in which the batteries are formed in is called a series.

im SHOCKED

Here I took a picture of a tag from a blow dryer. The tag says that the blow dryer should not be near water because there is a risk of death by electric shock. The reason why this is dangerous is because when this combines with water, the energy released by the electric shock if extremely powerful due to the amount of charge that is created when it combines with the water. The voltage is not necessarily the dangerous part of the shock, but the amount of charge that is produced when the blow dryer is in contact with water. If the voltage was high and the charge was not, then the shock would not be very dangerous.

Energized

This is a double A Battery that I took out of my T.V. remote. Mr. Blake has already shown us this example during class, but I am using this example again because it is the best way to describe the difference between electric potential energy and electric potential. These two concepts seem like they are the same thing, but they are totally different. Electric Potential Energy deals with the amount of stored energy an electric field can hold and how much work is being done. Electric potential is how much electric charge is in something. The equation for electric potential is electric potential energy/charge. The units for this is a volt. A volt is equal to joules/coulomb. 

These are some magnets that are attached to my fridge. I have them to hold other things on my fridge in place and so they do not fall. The reason why I am talking about magnets is because they are closely related to how an atom works. Two like charges repel each other, while on the other hand two opposite charges containing a neutral, positive, or a negative will attract each other. This meaning that if two positive charges were to be combined, they would repel each other and go away from each other. If a positive and a neutral charge were to be combined, then they would attract each other. This is how a magnet works. The charge between the fridge and the magnet are opposite, therefore they are attracted. This explains why the magnet is able to hold itself up on the fridge. 

Shocking Socks

Many people know of the old trick where you have socks on while standing on a carpet and you shuffle your feet back and forth to create an electrical charge throughout your body and then by touching the other person you transfer the electrical charge to the other person therefore shocking them. Although this trick is really cool, it does not work in Hawaii. The reason why it does not work is because in Hawaii, we are surrounded by water and therefore the air is too moist to create and electrical charge that can be transferred to another person with the old socks trick. It would be really cool if it would work in Hawaii though.