Electricity Keywords

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Charged particles that move through a substance when a pd is applied across it.
Charge carriers
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The amount of electrical energy per unit charge produced inside a source of electrical energy.
Electromotive force
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The capacity to do work.
Energy
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Resistor which is designed to have a resistance that changes with light intensity.
LDR
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The resistance of a semiconductor decreases when its temperature is increased.
Negative temperature coefficient
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The pd across a metallic conductor is proportional to the current, provided the conditions do not change.
Ohm's Law
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The resistance of a metal increases when its temperature is increased.
Positive temperature coefficient
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Work done or energy transfer per unit charge between two points when charge moves from one point to the other.
Potential difference
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Two or more resistors in series connected to a source of pd.
Potential divider
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Rate of energy transfer.
Power
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Pd / current
Resistance
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Resistance per unit length x area of cross-section.
Resistivity
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The value of direct current that would give the same heating effect as the alternating current in the same resistor (or pd).
RMS value
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A substance in which the number of charge carriers increases when the temperature is raised.
Semiconductor
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A material that has zero electrical resistance, below a ‘critical’ temperature.
Superconductor
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Resistor which is designed to have a resistance that changes with temperature.
Thermistor
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Pd per division of an oscilloscope.
Y-gain
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The amount of electrical energy per unit charge produced inside a source of electrical energy.

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Electromotive force

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The capacity to do work.

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Resistor which is designed to have a resistance that changes with light intensity.

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The resistance of a semiconductor decreases when its temperature is increased.

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