How does electricity make things hot?

Answer 1

Directly, electricity provides heat as current flows through resistive wire (a heating element). All wire has some resistance, which is usually not desirable. Heating elements are designed around desired wattage considering voltage available.

Indirectly, electricity can be applied to other elements or devices such as quartz, ceramics.

Answer 2

Yes, both heat and electricity are energy so they can be converted from one form to the other:

* electricity can produce heat in stoves, heaters, irons, air-conditioners * heat can produce electricity in cooling towers of a power-plant

Answer 3

Metals electrons "flow" relatively freely and only weekly attached to nuclei. If you have something not conductive, energy interaction of electron with nuclei can be very high. Thus when you apply some potential to the system, you provide some energy with purpose to free electron. In most cases that energy is dissipated through material lattice. Energy transfer to lattice makes it to oscillate more (lattice) and it's nothing else but heating!

Answer 4

When electricity passes through a high resistance material in an appliance, it causes the atoms in the material to vibrate rapidly, generating heat. This heat energy then increases the temperature of the object, making it hot.

Answer 5

it heat up thing because so of it energy is lost throw heat because you can't distort energy only change it form

Answer 6

In a power plant the heat produced either by burning fossil fuels or in a nuclear reactor is used to produce steam which is fed to a turbine which drives an electric generator

Answer 7

Since it increases the resistance of metals.