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How do charged conductors and insulators differ from each other?
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Insulators prevent electricity or energy from going through them. Conductors allow electricity/energy to easily pass through.
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What makes electric charge to flow?
When we bring a positively charged body towards a negatively charged body the negatively charged particles in the negatively charged body move towards the positively charged particles in the other body i.e an electric charge moves when we bring two bodies of differently charged bodies or the same charges(they repel each other in this case)
What is the difference between bundled conductors and composite conductors?
Bundled conductors are used to reduce the effect of corona. As in place of a single conductor. two conductors are used in parallel the voltage gradient build up is less and thus the ionisation of the surrounding air is decreased. Therefore the effect of corona is reduced.
What is a overcurrent device?
a device protecting conductors or other equipment in a circuit from an overload/overcurrent situation
What is the basic difference between conductors and insulators?
The difference between a conductor and a insulator is that a conductor tries to keep the warmness away and the insulator tries to keep the warmness in. An insulator is like an refrigerator, and mabey a cooler so when you go hiking it keeps the coolness inside or keeps the warmness inside!!:-)<3
Do conductors have high or low current?
Low resistance. Think of Ohm's law. Voltage drop is directly proportional to resistance. The higher the resistance, the higher the voltage drop, and the less voltage that is available for the load. Think of conductor resistance as a resistance in series with the load. Also, higher conductor resistance means more power lost, going to heating the conductors. The "line loss" formula is P=I2R. The greater the resistance, the greater the electrical power being converted into thermal power heating the conductors.
Contrast insulators and conductors?
Insulators do not allow electric current to flow through. Conductors allow electric current to flow through.
What are the differences between charged conductors and insulators?
Insulators block the flow of electricity, and therfore cannot be charged. That is completely wrong. An insulator can be charged. The difference is that the charge carriers in an insulator will be still, and will not respond to each other's fields. This is not true for a conductor, where the coulomb forces between charges will force all charge to the surface of the conductor, as a result of Gauss' law.
Why are switches and electric sockets are made by using conductors?
They are made using both conductors and insulators: conductors where you do want the electricity to be able to flow and insulators where you want to prevent the electricity from flowing.If they were made using just one or the other, they could not perform their intended functions.
What is the similarities between conductors and insulators?
Conductors and insulators are different and simalar in many ways.Two ways they are simallar are they both have electrons and have something to do with electricity.Three ways they are different that conductors let heat and electricity go through it .On the other hand insulators do not let heat or electreicity go through it easily.Another way is conductors transfer eelectrons easily but meanwhile the insulator psses on electrons with difficulty.One last thing is that conductors are not current but insulators are current. HOPE I HELPED YOU
Why conductors conduct heat and electricity while insulators are known as poor conductors?
Conductors conduct heat and electricity well because they have delocalised electrons in their structure. Insulators, on the other hand, do not have delocalised electrons and therefore do not conduct heat and electricity as a conductor, although they do conduct to some extent.
How are insulators and conductors used for nuclear energy?
Generally the same ways they are used in other types of power plants.
Is gas a good conductor of electricity?
Air and other gases are usually good insulators but sometimes they can be good conductors
How do semiconductor differ from conductor and insulators?
SemiConductor = Kind-of-conducts.Really! By applying electricity to the conducting material (usually in a transistor or Integrated chip) the conduction rate of the material changes. This allows you to change the flow of electricity through the semiconductor by using a second smaller control voltage.This is the basis of most electrical components.Conductors(made out of materials that are not semi-conductors) fully allow electricity to flow through it.Insulators (Non-Conductors)completely block the flow of electricity.
Is polystyrene a conductor?
polystyrene along with other porous (objects which have a lot of air in them) such as Styrofoam water, wood and other materials are insulators, not conductors.
Name two other materials that are poor conductors of electricity and might make good insulators?
plastic, glass and rubber
What is the role of insulators such as plastic rubber and cloth covering wires and other conductors in a circuit?
Insulators are used to keep electrical currents in the circuit. If they do not follow the entire circuit, it would be a "short circuit".
What are conductors and insulators of electricity?
Conductors are materials that pass electrical current easily, that is, with low resistance. Insulators are materials that do not pass electrical current easily, that is, they have high resistance. Conductors are ordinarily metals, and insulators are ordinarily nonmetals. Some examples of conductors are: Silver, Copper, Carbon, and Aluminum. Some examples of insulators are Glass, Nylon, and Wood (as well as Air and Vacuum). Conductivity is a function of the mobility of Electrons in the materials in question. Conductors have high mobility and conductors have low mobility. Semiconductors are materials that have some properties of both conductors and insulators. Germanium and Silicon are well known semiconductors. Superconductors are materials that pass electrical current with zero resistance. All known superconductors perform this function only at very low temperatures, far below those encountered in Earth environments (i.e. from around 77 degrees above absolute zero down, or, in other words, below about -320 degrees F).
