Friday, February 6, 2015

Friday February 6

Unit 3: Electrical Generation

Study Guide

  1. What is electricity?
  2. What are the parts of an atom?
  3. Why is it important that the electrons are on the outside of the nucleus?
  4. What is a magnet? What are the two parts of a magnet? 
  5. What is a magnetic field?
  6. What is a conductor?Provide an example.
  7. What is a resistor? Provide an example.
  8. What is a turbine? What are three (3) examples of turbines that were shown in the video?
  9. What is the purpose of a turbine? (What does it do?)
  10. What is a generator? (What does it do?)
  11. How do generators and turbines work together?
  12. What is the 1st Law of Thermodynamics?
  13. When a resource is converted into electricity, what does most of the energy in the resource get turned into?
  14. What is the maximum efficiency that could (theoretically) be achieved?
  15. Why are all energy transfers always less than the answer to #14?

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