Electricity
This Electricity topic starts off by introducing "static" electricity with some exciting experiments to do with charging objects and attracting and repelling other objects with them. We even have the opportunity to charge ourselves using the "Van de Graaf Generator". This leads on to moving electricity and where we get our electricity from. Did you know that a battery is only a battery if there are two or more "cells" that make it up. What is a cell? Well this topic will explain all. We will find out what conditions need to be met before a current will flow and we will find out the difference between a "series" and "parallel" circuit. We learn how to measure electricity using voltmeters and ammeters and the rules for how current and voltage behaves in a circuit. All very useful for understanding how something as simple as a torch works or how you get electricity in your house. We finish this topic off by discovering ways to change the size of the current that flows around a circuit.
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