Electricity & Magnetism

Learn about electric charge, conservation, quantization, and the behavior of like and unlike charges.

Understand how materials allow or resist the flow of electric charges.

Explore methods of creating static charges without direct contact or through rubbing.

Learn how the force between two charges depends on distance and magnitude.

Understand the region around charges where electric forces act, and how field lines behave.

Explore how energy is stored and transferred in electric fields.

Understand the linear relationship between voltage, current, and resistance.

Learn how material, length, area, and temperature affect resistance.

Study how components behave when connected in single or multiple paths.

Learn the rules for conserving charge and energy in complex circuits.

Understand how electrical energy is used and calculated in devices.

Explore how current, resistance, and time contribute to heat energy in conductors.

Study how capacitors store electric charge and energy in electric fields.

Learn how magnetic fields form around magnets and current-carrying wires.

Understand how charged particles experience force when moving through magnetic fields.

Learn how current in wires interacts with magnetic fields to produce force.

Use your hand as a tool to determine directions of fields, forces, and motion.

Learn how different current-carrying geometries generate magnetic fields.

Study how current-carrying wires attract or repel each other.

Learn how changing magnetic fields induce electric currents in conductors.

Explore how EMF is related to the rate of change of magnetic flux.

Understand how nature opposes changes in magnetic flux through induced currents.

Learn how motion in a magnetic field generates voltage in a conductor.

Explore how alternating current changes voltage through coil windings.

Learn how electromagnetism powers motors and produces current in generators.