Thursday, February 5, 2015

What is the actual meaning of electricty?

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and flow of electric charge. Electricity gives a wide variety of well-known effects, such as lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic induction and electrical current.
        Nikola Tesla in his Colorado Laboratory with magnifying transmitter in action generating 20 million volts of electricity


Here we are going to see what is the actullay electricity is ?? In general people there were different different answers eg. its current,volatge, power etc.
But actually electricity is defines by three major attributes:
  • Voltage
  • Current
  • Resistance
again we all are very familiar with this three words but we are just know the names we do not know the actual meaning of this words and the real purpose of voltage, current and resistance.
let me give you a simple and important idea about this three attributes.

"Voltage is the "pressure" that makes an electric charge move."

"Simply the Current is the charge's "flow" or flow of electric charge  -- the rate at which the charge moves through the conductor, measured at any particular point."

"The conductor offers a certain amount of resistance to this flow, which varies depending on the conductor's composition and size"

Voltage, current and resistance are all interrelated -- you can't change one without changing another. as we all know current is equal to voltage divided by resistance (commonly written as I = v / r). This makes intuitive sense: If you increase the pressure working on electric charge or decrease the resistance, more charge will flow. If you decrease pressure or increase resistance, less charge will flow.

 source: www.howstuffworks.com

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