Electricity and Circuits Shodor电力电路shodor.pptVIP

The 555 timer will switch the output back and forth as the capacitor charges and discharges. Before trying both capacitors, which one will make the light blink faster? Who knows what a water wheel is? * Pick up breadboard and show them it * Start putting your circuit together * Finish building circuit * Where have we all heard about watts * Pass out supplies Don’t touch things until I tell you to * Don’t connect battery yet, just take it out * Engineers in Training Day 2 Developed by Shodor and Michael Woody What uses electricity? Name some things that use electricity Try to name something you like to do that doesn’t use electricity. Everything that uses electricity is made up of at least one circuit To figure out how we use electricity we first will look at water. Suppose we want to grind some grain using a water wheel What do you need to have a water wheel? Water Hill (for the water to flow down) Pipes/channels (to direct the water) The water wheel (to power something) Mill, pump, etc (something needing power) What things might we measure about our water wheel setup? How high/steep is the hill? How fast is the water moving? How much grain can we grind every day? Our circuits are very similar to waterwheels. Instead of a landscape we have a breadboard This is where we put our circuit together Our circuits are very similar to waterwheels. We have electric charge instead of water This is what makes everything go in the circuit Our circuits are very similar to waterwheels. And a battery instead of a hill Without this the charges wouldn’t move, they would just stand still and do nothing. Our circuits are very similar to waterwheels. Wires for pipes and channels These carry the electricity to where we want to go and direct it Our circuits are very similar to waterwheels. A light bulb (or motor, etc.) that needs power instead of the water wheel. This is the end goal of our circuit, to accomplish some task. Voltage (potential)