Current Electricity & Magnetism - Key Concepts
Current Electricity & Magnetism Objectives
Key Concepts
- SI units.
- Slopes have physical significance like Voltage vs Current.
- A circuit is a closed path with a potential difference, allowing current to exist.
- Total current entering a junction equals the total current leaving.
- Around any closed loop, the sum of potential drops equals the sum of potential increases.
- Resistors in series: equivalent resistance is the sum of their values.
- Resistors in parallel: equivalent resistance is less than any individual resistor.
- Resistance is directly related to temperature, length, resistivity, and voltage, but indirectly related to cross-sectional area and current.
- Ohm's Law: V=IR
- Energy conversion between mechanical, electromagnetic, nuclear, and thermal forms.
- Power is a rate.
- Magnetic field lines go from North to South.
- Moving electric charges produce magnetic fields.
- Magnetic fields produce moving electric charges.
- Magnetic forces can be attractive or repulsive.
- Electricity is a form of energy transformed by moving electric charges doing work.
- Electric fields provide the force that moves charged particles.