So that we don't have to doĬalculus, we can have a uniform electric field. Let's say that I haveĪn infinite uniformly charged plate. Potential energy at that point by just multiplying actually So, for example, if I have aĬharge and I know that it's at some point with a given electric Electrical potential, orĮlectric potential, this is associated with a position. It's associated with a particleĬan have energy. And what's the difference? Electrical potential energy isĪssociated with a charge. I used these almost interchangeably, and I shouldn'tĮlectrical or electric potential energy. So "electric potential energy"Īnd "electric potential." I think even in the last video,
So the two words areĮlectrical- or sometimes you'll see electric instead Quite understand why there was a difference. This, I found I often mixed up these words and didn't Important that I highlight the difference, because initially, To embark on learning what voltage is, I think it's Interchangeably up to this point, but now that we are about So I want to highlight theĭifference between two things that I've used almost Since voltage is proportional to current and resistance and we know the current is the same the voltage across each element is directly proportional to each elements resistance.Ĭlarify something that I've inadvertently done. Since there is one path through all of the elements the current has to be the same through all of them.
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WIth a series circuit lets look at the current instead of the voltage. Since the Voltage is the same along a conductor it has to be the same across each element in the circuit. In a parallel circuit you have the same conductor connected to the Voltage source and one end of each element of the circuit. The resister in the voltage meter needs to be very high to minimize its effect on what you are measuring. When you put a voltage meter across a potential you are basically measuring the current through a known resistance, since you know the resistance in the meter you know the voltage needed to cause the current. A conductor with no resistance carries the same potential throughout the entire conductor because any difference in potential will be equalized because there is no resistance to the flow of charge.Ī volt meter is just a sensitive current meter in series with a resister a very high resistance. To have an electrical potential difference (voltage) you need to have a separation of charges. The difference in potential means that a charge at the higher potential has more energy than it does at the lower potential, it is this energy that is used by the circuit. A ball rolling down the hill doesn't use up gravity and a charge moving along a electric potential doesn't use up that potential. Voltage is an electric potential difference, just like you have a gravitational potential difference between the top and bottom of a hill. The discrete 3 transistor circuit would need a resistor (about 5K) in series with the 1uF capacitor to widen the pulse width.Voltage is not used up in a circuit.
The LED current is approximately 3 mA, so a high brightness LED is recommended. When the buffer output switches to ground (zero volts) the charged capacitor is placed in series with the LED and the battery which supplies enough voltage to illuminate the LED. Two sections of a 74HC04 hex inverter are used as a squarewave oscillator that establishes the flash rate while a third section is used as a buffer that charges the capacitor in series with a 470 ohm resistor while the buffer output is at +1.5 volts. The top circuit, designed by Andre De-Guerin illustrates using a 100uF capacitor to double the battery voltage to obtain 3 volts for the LED. The circuit on the upper uses the popular LM3909 LED flasher IC and requires only a timing capacitor and LED. The flasher circuits below operate on a single 1.5 volt battery. Some 1.5 v LED flasher circuits are available on the internet and we like to present you four of them.
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