Unit 3 Physics
The Big Idea: Electricity is the flow of electrons.
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Before you begin download the unit checklist:
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3.1 How is electrical energy part of your world?
Handout: Key Terms
Handout: Power Failure!
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Farm Family Life without Electricity |
Handout: Electrical Energy Detective
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Kinetic and Potential Energy |
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Types of Energy |
Handout: Types of Energy
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Amazing energy facts to blow your mind |
Handout: Charge it
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How hydroelectricity works |
Handout: What Are the Properties of an Ideal Energy Source?
Handout: Alternative Sources
3.2 How do electrical charges behave?
Handout: Recalling Atoms and Charge
Handout: Lightning Rock of the Sumas First Nation
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What is static electricity? |
Handout: Charge the Tape
Handout: Applying Properties of Electrical Charges
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9 Awesome Science Tricks Using Static Electricity! |
Handout: Repulsion Between Two Charged Objects
Handout: Behaviour of Charged Objects
Handout: The Great Race
3.3 How do charges flow through the components of a circuit?
Handout: Battle of the Batteries
Handout: Separating Charges in a Cell
Handout: Effects of Voltage and Current on the Human Body
Handout: Current Flow in a Closed Circuit
3.4 How are circuits used in practical applications?
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Practical ElectricityIMPORTANT! Technically electrons flow through circuits from the negative side of a battery to the positive side of a battery. HOWEVER, conventional current is assumed to flow from the positive end to the negative end. The discretion was caused during the discovery of electricity by Benjamin Franklin. By the time the mistake was discovered conventional current flow was well established, even though technically the flow is from negative to positive. Read more about this on allaboutcurrents.com.
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Voltage Potential |
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Simple Circuit |
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Battery Energy & Power |
Web Activity: Battery Resistor Circuit
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Voltage |
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What is a Resistor? |
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Series & Parallel Circuits |
Web Activity: Series & Parallel Circuits
Web Activity: Click on the image below to run the Circuits simulator.
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AC vs DC |
Web Activity: AC vs DC
Web Activity: click the image below to run the Generator simulator
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Volts, Ohms & Amps |
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What is an amp? |
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Ohm's Law |
Web Activity: Ohm's Law
Web Activity: click on the image below to begin the Ohm's Law simulator
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Handout: Using Ohm's Law
Handout: Ohms Law Practice Problems
Handout: Ohm’s Law More Practice Problems
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Resistors |
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Does volts or amps kill you? |
