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Electrician 101

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1. What happens when current passes through a motor's field coils?
Energy
1000 watts
Voltage or electromotive force is pressure required to force electrons into a wire. Voltage is also measured in units called Volts.
A magnatic field is generated that makes the motor rotate - producing mechanical power.

2. What is a useful characteristic that can be used in an appliance?
Most common electrical devices are set to operate as 120/240 V.
E stands for voltage in volts - I stands for current in amperes - and P stands for power in watts.
1000 watts
When current flows - the resulting work is energy. Current flow tends to heat whatever its moving through - which is a useful characteristic of an appliance.

3. What do you have to calculate to get the amount of electrical power?
You must multiply voltage ( involts) times current(in amperes).
Electricity behaves as a water system. It must have pressure to push the water - and a drain to allow it to flow continuously.
120/240 V service.
From an electricians - pov - electricity is the movement of electrons. Electrons are atomic particles found in every substance. An electron has one main characteristic which is a negative electrical charge.

4. Electrical Power is the product of what?
Most common electrical devices are set to operate as 120/240 V.
The behavior of positive and negative charges is very similar to the behavior of the two poles in a magnet.
Voltage or electromotive force is pressure required to force electrons into a wire. Voltage is also measured in units called Volts.
Voltage and current in a circuit. That is - voltage(in volts) times current (in amperes) equals power (in watts) P=E x I

5. How is current measured?
Voltage and current in a circuit. That is - voltage(in volts) times current (in amperes) equals power (in watts) P=E x I
In units of Amperes
From an electricians - pov - electricity is the movement of electrons. Electrons are atomic particles found in every substance. An electron has one main characteristic which is a negative electrical charge.
E stands for voltage in volts - I stands for current in amperes - and P stands for power in watts.

6. What is the amperage that can be measured with a ammeter?
The electrical current flow or amperage - the rate of electron flow that passes through a cross section of wire.
KW-H
Electricity behaves as a water system. It must have pressure to push the water - and a drain to allow it to flow continuously.
When current flows - the resulting work is energy. Current flow tends to heat whatever its moving through - which is a useful characteristic of an appliance.

7. What type of Voltage is required for new homes to have?
The electrical current flow or amperage - the rate of electron flow that passes through a cross section of wire.
E stands for voltage in volts - I stands for current in amperes - and P stands for power in watts.
You must multiply voltage ( involts) times current(in amperes).
120/240 V service.

8. What is the basic unit to measure electrical power?
60 cycles per second.
Watt.
The electrical current flow or amperage - the rate of electron flow that passes through a cross section of wire.
Voltage and current in a circuit. That is - voltage(in volts) times current (in amperes) equals power (in watts) P=E x I

9. How can electrons be forced to move?
KW-H
Electrons can be forced to move by pushing more electrons to the wire. However - no electron can get into the wire unless an equal number of electrons is pushed out of the other end.
Most common electrical devices are set to operate as 120/240 V.
Voltage or electromotive force is pressure required to force electrons into a wire. Voltage is also measured in units called Volts.

10. What is DC?
The design that the system is able to handle total amperage needs.
Hertz - one cycle per second is equal to one hertz. Electricity is caused to flow through wires at a frequency of 60 cycles per second. This means electrons flow one direction - then in the reverse direction - repeating this cycle 60 times every seco
KW-H
Stands for direct current and it is when electrons move in one direction.

11. What voltage are common electrical devices - designed to operate as?
Most common electrical devices are set to operate as 120/240 V.
In a wire conductor - there are billions of loose or free electrons - all safely in place in their fields. They're distributed evenly throughout the wire.
1000 watts
The design that the system is able to handle total amperage needs.

12. What is Amperes?
The electrical current flow or amperage - the rate of electron flow that passes through a cross section of wire.
The basic unit used to measure electrical power.
When current flows - the resulting work is energy. Current flow tends to heat whatever its moving through - which is a useful characteristic of an appliance.
Amps or just A - is the measurement in units of the amount of electric current that flows. The rate of electron flow determines the number of amperes in a circuit. The rate of electron flow determines the number of amperes in a circuit.

13. What type of system does electricity behaves as?
Electricity behaves as a water system. It must have pressure to push the water - and a drain to allow it to flow continuously.
Stands for alternating current and it is when electrons move in both directions.
120/240 V service.
Most common electrical devices are set to operate as 120/240 V.

14. What is WATT?
KW-H
Hertz - one cycle per second is equal to one hertz. Electricity is caused to flow through wires at a frequency of 60 cycles per second. This means electrons flow one direction - then in the reverse direction - repeating this cycle 60 times every seco
The basic unit used to measure electrical power.
Electricity behaves as a water system. It must have pressure to push the water - and a drain to allow it to flow continuously.

15. What does P = E x I stand for?
Power which is watt.
E stands for voltage in volts - I stands for current in amperes - and P stands for power in watts.
In units of Amperes
In a wire conductor - there are billions of loose or free electrons - all safely in place in their fields. They're distributed evenly throughout the wire.

16. What is electricity really?
A magnatic field is generated that makes the motor rotate - producing mechanical power.
In units of Amperes
120/240 V service.
From an electricians - pov - electricity is the movement of electrons. Electrons are atomic particles found in every substance. An electron has one main characteristic which is a negative electrical charge.

17. What is the measurement unit of electron movement
Hertz - one cycle per second is equal to one hertz. Electricity is caused to flow through wires at a frequency of 60 cycles per second. This means electrons flow one direction - then in the reverse direction - repeating this cycle 60 times every seco
Stands for alternating current and it is when electrons move in both directions.
E stands for voltage in volts - I stands for current in amperes - and P stands for power in watts.
In units of Amperes

18. What does the positive-negative attraction relate too?
The behavior of positive and negative charges is very similar to the behavior of the two poles in a magnet.
Energy
Hertz - one cycle per second is equal to one hertz. Electricity is caused to flow through wires at a frequency of 60 cycles per second. This means electrons flow one direction - then in the reverse direction - repeating this cycle 60 times every seco
In a wire conductor - there are billions of loose or free electrons - all safely in place in their fields. They're distributed evenly throughout the wire.

19. Electricity flows through wires In what frequency?
In units of Amperes
60 cycles per second.
Electrons can be forced to move by pushing more electrons to the wire. However - no electron can get into the wire unless an equal number of electrons is pushed out of the other end.
From an electricians - pov - electricity is the movement of electrons. Electrons are atomic particles found in every substance. An electron has one main characteristic which is a negative electrical charge.

20. What is voltage or electromotive force?
The design that the system is able to handle total amperage needs.
120/240 V service.
Stands for direct current and it is when electrons move in one direction.
Voltage or electromotive force is pressure required to force electrons into a wire. Voltage is also measured in units called Volts.

21. What is 1 kilowatt equal too?
Stands for direct current and it is when electrons move in one direction.
The basic unit used to measure electrical power.
1000 watts
60 cycles per second.

22. What is the unit commonly used to measure electrical energy?
Power which is watt.
KW-H
In units of Amperes
Watt.

23. What is going on in a wire conductor with free electrons?

24. What do you need to take into account when installing a electrical system?
Most common electrical devices are set to operate as 120/240 V.
The design that the system is able to handle total amperage needs.
The electrical current flow or amperage - the rate of electron flow that passes through a cross section of wire.
When current flows - the resulting work is energy. Current flow tends to heat whatever its moving through - which is a useful characteristic of an appliance.

25. What does an appliance need to function properly?
KW-H
Energy
Power which is watt.
Voltage and current in a circuit. That is - voltage(in volts) times current (in amperes) equals power (in watts) P=E x I

26. What is AC?
Voltage or electromotive force is pressure required to force electrons into a wire. Voltage is also measured in units called Volts.
You must multiply voltage ( involts) times current(in amperes).
Energy
Stands for alternating current and it is when electrons move in both directions.

27. What is the amount of power used over a period of time?
Stands for direct current and it is when electrons move in one direction.
Power which is watt.
1000 watts
Energy