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Electric Circuits: Paths For Electric Current
Electric Circuits: Paths For Electric Current
To better understand a
light bulb, let’s look
inside.
Light Bulb Diagram
Electric charges moving
through the filament
make it glow.
Experiment 1: Lighting a light bulb
Obtain one battery, one light bulb, and one copper wire.
Use one of the arrangements you found that lights the bulb to test if other
materials besides copper wire will light the bulb.
Some materials contain particles with electric charge that are free to
move through the material. We call this type of material a conductor.
Examples of conductors:
metal
water with dissolved salts
plasma
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Copper wire Aluminum wire Plastic
Light Bulb Diagram
Electric charges moving
through the filament Which parts of the
make it glow.
bulb do you think are
metal conductors?
Light Bulb Diagram
Conductor
Light Bulb Diagram
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