Electricity
Electricity is a major force of nature. In this section, you can learn how electricity works and what its potential uses are.
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Electricity completely surrounds us whether you're charging your cell phone or watching the sky light up during a violent thunderstorm. For most of us, modern life would be impossible without it, and the natural world relies on it.
Without gasoline, the world as we know it would grind to a screeching halt. The U.S. alone consumes well over a hundred billion gallons of gasoline per year. Learn all about this vital fuel.
Voltage is how we measure the difference in electric potential energy. Learn about what voltage is from this article.
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Thanks to the Faraday cage, we can control electricity and make it safer for our computers, cars and other inventions.
You want to learn how to read the electric power meter in your home to see if the meter reader sent by the electric company was accurate. This article will teach you how to read a power meter.
What happens when there's too much voltage? Learn about the difference between voltage surges and spikes from this article.
Static electricity happens when there's an imbalance between negative and positive charges in an object. It's when those charges get released that we feel that infamous spark.
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Scientists have figured out why some objects stick more to each other. And it's a very cool trick.
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