What is Electricity?
Overview : Electricity is all around us–powering technology like our cell phones, computers, lights, soldering irons, and air conditioners. It’s tough to escape it in our modern world. Even when you try to escape electricity, it’s still at work throughout nature, from the lightning in a thunderstorm to the synapses inside our body. But what exactly is electricity? Definition Electricity is simply put the movement or flow of electrons from one atom to another. Going Atomic To understand what electricity really is, we must go down to the very basic building block of matter ----- down to the atomic level. Here's the Bohr's Atomic Model to illustrate the fundamental components of an atom. An atom has three basic particles namely the electron, proton and neutron. Electron - is negatively charged particle ( - ) Proton - is positively charged particle ( + ) Neutron - has no charged Electron Flow "What makes an electric...