This note is an AQA A level Physics note on Electricity. There are useful tables, graphs and some drawings and illustrations attached in the note for better understanding.
1 Basics of Electricity
Potential Energy
For an electric circuit to work ,
it needs to have a
Electric Current source of potential Energy (PE)
# can be provided with a
charge carriers ↑
·y
batteries/cells W
wire
·
Electric current :
rate of flow of charge
around the
-current
circuit
always flows n-
from + positive - -
negative &
terminals of the source ELECTRIC CURRENT &
. ↳ ⑰]
I X
I
of PE
-created by movement
of charge carriers
↓ Battery/cell
charged particles)
Flow of Current is OPPOSITE to Flow of Electrons
2 types of
charge carers
/ W
Elections
Ions
- -
In metals
-
-free to move around
-e free to move around
in a solution of dissolved salt
their structure bic of the
way metal
metallic substances
atoms wi
are bonded
Ex) NaCI
Nat]
I
lows that
the
carry
charge
when wire is not wire is carrying
carrying current current
27 *
I
5-7 -7
5⑧ 088
⑧-
->
⑧ ⑧ 00 ⑧ ⑧ -
-
I
I ↑ I Y !
⑧ ⑧ & ⑳- ⑧
-
=0
& OEDEDED1
E I - I I E
Y
⑧->⑧ 80
*O↑0 I -
0+ 8-8+070- 0
I
I
Free Electrons metal Atom Free Electrons
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