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Is a short circuit the easiest path for electricity to follow?
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∙ 13y ago
yes short circuit is easiest path for current to flow because it has low resistence.
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What happens when water and electricity go together?
short circuit
Why you have to make sure of your hands are dry when i am using electrical equipment?
Water on hands could conduct electricity into your body if there is short circuit in the electrical device.
Will short circuit wasting energy?
Short circuit blowing fuse or breaker.
What is the effect of a short circuit on other devices in the circuit?
Electricity is designed to complete a circuit. For example, it comes into your house by way of the hot wire. Then it goes through the electrical box and through the fuse system. Finally it goes through a light bulb or some other electrical devise. Then it goes back through the neutral wire. It wants to get back to the neutral wire without doing any work. In a way, electricity acts like a river. A little stream leaves the river to run your lightbulb. However, every now and then, there is a short circuit. The circuit leading to the light bulb develops a short circuit. In that case, a lot more electricity than should tries to go through the little wire that led to the light bulb. It wants to get to the neutral wire. It is like a river overflowing through a little stream and creating a flood. It can burn out the little wire and set the house on fire. The flood runs into a culvert which holds back the flood. The short circuit blows a fuse or throws a circuit breaker and the house does not burn down. Every now and then the main fuse box blows out and a house burns down. Every now and then a wire falls down outside and people walk close to it. The ground is full of electricity and the people are killed. So a short circuit happens when electricity completes a circuit without doing any work. It is dangerious when a fuse does not blow.
How can short circuit damage devices?
It depends if the short are before or after the device. The short circuit will cause high amperage trough the device and then blown. (JP)
Short circuits are dangerous because?
electricity always "wants" to take the easiest route, this is the route with the least resistance, this is why an insulator does not conduct electricity, it takes to much force for the electricity to travel through. a short circuit is when the easiest route is the wrong route i.e. the body of a lamp rather than the wiring of the lamp. the danger of a short circuit is dependent on the voltage and current of the electricity.
What is the difference in an open circuit and a short circuit?
an open circuit is a circuit that does not complete the circle. an open circuit does not do the job as the electricity stands still a short circuit is a circuit that wires have crossed and the electricity takes the shortest path. and does not complete all of the points on the circuit
What is the purposes of eletricity?
In short, it completes the circuit, and facilitates the flow of electricity through the circuit.
What is used to prevent the flow of electricity?
A switch. Insulation keeps the electricity from a short circuit.
When electricity takes the easy path what type of circuit is involved?
Electricity takes the path of least resistance. When the electricity travels outside of the circuit, rather than through it, it is called a short circuit.
What happens when water and electricity go together?
short circuit
How can a tone generator be used to locate a short circuit?
Yes you can use both. They are also acutally the easiest way to find a short in an automotive circuit.
Occurs when electricity takes a new path that is shorter than normal?
When electricity takes a new path that is shorter than normal or in the electrical trade it is know as, current taking the path of least resistance, it is known as a short circuit.
How do you heat up a wire?
passing electricity through it by connecting t between the poles of a battery to make a circuit,in this case a short circuit.
What can a short circuit cause?
current bypassing a loadA short circuit happens when electricity has a way to take a 'short cut', which means it does not travel the way the engineer or designer intended it to travel.A short circuit can be as harmless as not allowing the unit to circuit to function or it could burn out the resistor's, diode's or solid state circuits, to actually causing electrical shock to anyone that contacts it.
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".
Why does your electricity go out in one room?
Because you have blown a fuse or tripped a circuit breaker. This is caused by a) too much equipment plugged into a single circuit, or b) faulty equipment causing a short circuit.
