Electricity
Zaishary Reynoso P. 03 11/16/2015
Conductors
Define the Vocabulary
- Conductors are materials that permit electrons to flow freely from particle to particle.
- The conductors may conduct electricity, the insulators do not conduct electricity and acts as a semiconductor or insulating coductor depends on the electronic field capable of conducting electricity and an insulator worse than conductors.
Example of Real Life
- Humans, copper, radio waves, aluminium, silver, gold.
Semiconductors
Define The Vocabulary
- A solid substance that has a conductivity between that of an insulator and that of most metals, either due to the addition of an impurity or because of temperature effects.
Comparing and Constrasting
- The conductors may conduct electricity, the insulators do not conduct electricity and acts as a semiconductor or insulating coductor depends on the electronic field capable of conducting electricity and an insulator worse than conductors.
Example of Real Life
- Graphite, silicon, germanium
Insulators
Define the Vocabulary
- In a conductor, electric current can flow freely, in aninsulator it cannot. Metals such as copper typify conductors, while most non-metallic solids are said to be good insulators, having extremely high resistance to the flow of charge through them.
Comparing and Constrasting
- The conductors may conduct electricity, the insulators do not conduct electricity and acts as a semiconductor or insulating coductor depends on the electronic field capable of conducting electricity and an insulator worse than conductors.
Example of Real Life
- Polyethylene, glass, many ceramics, rubber, PVC, paper, mica.