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Electric Current and Circuits
• Electric Energy
• Electric Charges
• Electric Circuit
• Insulator
Electricity is all around us—powering
technology like our cell phones, computers,
lights, soldering irons and air condi oners.
It’s tough to escape it in our modern world.
Even when you try to escape electricity, it’s
s ll at work throughout nature, from the
lightning in a thunderstorm to the synapses
inside our body. But what exactly is
electricity? This is a very complicated
ques on and as you dig deeper and ask
more ques ons, there really is not a
defini ve answer, only abstract represen-
ta ons of how electricity interacts with our
surroundings.
Science-6
• Sta c and Current Electricity
• Flow of Electric Current
• Conductor
• Is Water a Conductor or an Insulator?
ELECTRIC ENERGY
Electric energy is also called electricity.
Electric charges and currents a ract or repel
each other, i.e., they exert forces on each
other. Thus, work needs to be done in
general to move them with respect to each
other. The energy associated with this work
is called electric energy.
Work is defined as the force that acts on
a body to move it.
Energy is defined as the capacity to do
work.
STATIC AND CURRENT ELECTRICITY
When we rub two different materials, they
get electrified. For example, when a piece of
amber is rubbed with a woollen cloth, the
amber acquires the property of a rac ng
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