Electricity

In Physics we learned more about Electric Current, Resistance, and Power. On top of parallel, and series circuits, we learned about combo circuits as well. Some terms that we reviewed included current through which is when the current will flow through the multimeter "like water" arranged in path before the object you are going to measure. I related the lessons that we learned in class to my home appliances, such as this wall plug.  A wall plug gets its electricity originally from a power plant, the electricity then comes underground to each house. I think that it all must be connected somehow, by circuit resistors such as the ones we learned about in class. I think that by knowing background knowledge about circuits, I can be more aware of how the electrical appliances in my house work. 

Energy Conserve Challenge

This week we were told to try and conserve energy in our own homes. I challenged my parents that if I could save more energy, I could keep the difference between the old electricity bill, and the next one that we receive. I even got my parents to join to. I conserved energy by shutting the light off when it wasn't needed, shutting the water off when I'm shampooing my hair, and scrubbing my body. I also tried to not watch TV as much, I did other things that were more productive. My parents did the same thing as well, they shut the water off during showers when it wasn't needed, and they shut the water off in between scrubbing the dishes. My mom conserved energy by hanging the clothes, instead of putting it in the dryer. These small changes, definitely taught us how to conserve energy more, and it also benefited the electricity bill. 

Current

This past week in physics we learned about electric current, resistance, power, and capacitance. Current is the number of charges passing a point per second. The rate of flow of charges. I learned that if the current that's going into the circuit is to powerful for the voltage that is made for that circuit, it will trip it, meaning a power surge will happen, and the circuit will blow. We had a home power activity that we did on the weekend, to learn how much electricity we use in our household. I found out that the dryer is the number one electricity consuming appliance in my household. I kind of thought that because to me, it does seem like it uses a lot of energy because it has to conduct heat, a lot of it to dry the amount of clothes that we put in it. I learned a lot from the lessons we learned this week, and from the power activity.