Electrical conductor Essays

  • Insulating Materials

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    makes the particles next to them vibrate causing the heat to pass through the walls of the beaker to the surroundings. Materials that are good thermal conductors tend to be good electrical conductors; metals such as gold, silver and copper have high thermal conductivity's and will conduct heat well. Materials such as glass are poor heat conductors. Convection - This is where the cooler water particles sink down to the bottom and the warmer water particles float up to the top. Convection may

  • Heat Loss Through Convection and Evaporation

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    Heat Loss Through Convection and Evaporation Aim Investigate if heat is lost through convection quicker then evaporation. Apparatus: Beakers, water (150ml), Thermometer, stand and clamp, red material, scissors and timer. Key factors =========== I need to keep the size of the beaker, water (150ml), temperature and insulating material. I need to Change where I put the insulating material on the beaker. I need to measure the water (150ml). To make this experiment a

  • Graphene Conclusion

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    become ineffective. Transistors has reached a saturation limit, where if made smaller electrons cannot be stopped from source to drain. Graphene now comes into the pictures. Graphene, is the hot topic that every physicists, material scientists, and electrical engineers have been talking about. Why did it garner such popularity in the scientific world, and deserve a Nobel Prize? One, out of many great future application of Graphene is further the shrinkage of transistors. Dominated in a world of silicone

  • Investigating How the Resistance of a Piece of Graphite Paper is Affected by the Width of the Graphite Paper

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    Investigating How the Resistance of a Piece of Graphite Paper is Affected by the Width of the Graphite Paper Planning I will be investigating how the resistance of a piece of graphite paper is affected by the width of it. The aim of the investigation is to carry out a suitable experiment to find various different resistances for various different widths of graphite paper. Preliminary Experiment The purpose of the preliminary experiment is to find a suitable length of graphite paper

  • Product Evaluation: A Hairdryer

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    electricity and heat, so it will be made of a suitable metal. This metal element/core, has to be able to be worked into complex shapes. So obviously it is going to be a light gauge metal and the beat conductor of electricity and heat. Through science, I know that copper is the best conductor of electricity, but the disadvantage is that it tends to be expensive. Aesthetics. The overall colour scheme is silver at the nozzle and maroon at the handle. The buttons and wiring are black. The

  • Conductivity of Graphite Paper

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    Conductivity of Graphite Paper Aim The aim of this experiment is to find out how much the length of graphite paper affects the amount of electricity conducted in a circuit. I will perform a series of experiments to draw a conclusion. Method For this experiment I will be varying one factor. This factor may affect how well the graphite paper conducts electricity. The factor I have chosen is the change of length of the graphite paper. To ensure that my test is accurate I will have

  • Circuits

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    of a circuit relate. The main thing that a circuit has is conductance and that all the parts are conductors. Conductors are materials in which electric charges move freely. If the material isn't a conductor, it is either a insulator or a semiconductor. Conductors are mainly metalic substances such as copper, aluminum, and gold. Conductors allow a charge to build up and move "freely" through the conductor. When dealing with circuits and the moving of electrons, free movement at the moment is the best

  • Electromagnetic Induction

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    Electromagnetic induction is the production of an electromotive force (emf) in a conductor as a result of a changing magnetic field about the conductor and is a very important concept. Faraday discovered that, whenever the magnetic field about an electromagnet was made to grow and collapse by closing and opening the electric circuit of which it was a part, an electric current could be detected in a separate conductor nearby. Faraday also investigated the possibility that a current could be produced

  • Secret of Magnetism

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    project. More importantly, to discover through experimentation that the secret behind magnetism could be its power! Let’s start by defining an electromagnet. An electromagnet is a temporary magnet formed when electric current flows through a wire or a conductor. Most electromagnets consist of wire wound around an iron core. This core is made from soft iron that loses its magnetism quickly when the electric current stops flowing through the wire. Electromagnetism is the branch of physics that studies the

  • The Physics of a Capacitor

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    capacitor is a device used to store charge in an electrical circuit. The function of a capacitor is much similar to a battery, but it charges and discharges much more efficiently. Also, unlike a battery, a capacitor does not produce electrons; it only stores them. A basic capacitor is made up of two conductors on which equal but opposite electric charges are placed, and an insulator, which is also called a dielectric, separates the two conductors. This dielectric could be made of paper, plastic

  • Superconductors

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    the research of superconductors. Superconductors consist of an element, inter-metallic alloy, or compound that will conduct electricity without resistance (loss of energy flowing through the material) below a certain temperature. Once in motion, electrical current will flow forever in a closed loop of superconducting material, hence the high demand of such a product. The development of superconductors has been a working progress for many years and some superconductors are already in use, but there

  • The History of Electricity

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    conducting since 1780 where fog's legs violently contracted if a metal scalpel accidentally touched a certain leg nerve during dissection. He showed that contractions occurred when the operator made contact with the nerve by means of an electric conductor connected to the ground, when the electrostatic machine was working or when there was a lighting strike in the vicinity. There were also produced if the frogs were placed on an iron plate while a brass hook simultaneously pressed against the

  • Oligopoly

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    seller knows that the other seller or sellers will react to its changes in prices and also quantities. This can cause a type of chain reaction in a market situation. In the world market there are oligopolies in steel production, automobiles, semi-conductor manufacturing, cigarettes, cereals, and also in telecommunications. Often times oligopolistic industries supply a similar or identical product. These companies tend to maximize their profits by forming a cartel and acting like a monopoly. A cartel

  • Defintion Essay - Is it Possible to Define Art?

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    minds. Some combination of the five senses is used to conduct information, so art may take the form of music, painting, sculpture, dance, and others. Art may be collaborative, as with the presentation of a symphony, which may involve a composer, a conductor, players, and a lighting crew all working to create the art of the presentation. Also, art occurs in at least one level of abstraction removed from reality, a representation of the real thing. There is no requirement of beauty in art. Indeed

  • Investigating Factors that Affect Heat Loss

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    is being passed on to the metal cup over most of its inner surface. 2. CONDUCTION - the metal cups will get hotter as a result of the heat energy inside the cup. The water will pass on this heat energy due to the fact that metal is a good conductor of heat. The heat energy will be conducted throughout the metal cup to the outer surface where it will be transferred to the air around the cup as radiation. 3. RADIATION - hot objects (i.e. the metal cup) emit mainly INFRA-RED radiation, and

  • Vanitas

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    Vanitas Vanitas, found in many recent pieces, is a style of painting begun in the 17th Century by Dutch artists. Artists involved in this movement include Pieter Claesz, Domenico Fetti and Bernardo Strozzi . Using still-life as their milieu, those artists and others like them provide the viewer with ideas regarding the brevity of life. The artists are giving us a taste of the swiftness with which life can fade and death overtakes us all. Some late 20th Century examples were shown recently at the

  • Black conductors

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    African American Conductors Conducting, as we know it today is less than two centuries old.1 On the other hand time beating; a way of holding players and/or singers together, has been around for several centuries. 1 In the absence of written notation, the leader’s hands indicated the direction of the group. As polyphony entered the musical picture, it became essential that the beats be on target. Interpretation at the time was of no importance. It has been indicated through engravings that in addition

  • Investigating the Dfference in Enthalpy of Combustion for a Number of Alcohols

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    combustion of the alcohol to heat 100ml of water that will be situated in a copper calorimeter directly above the burning alcohol. The calorimeter is made of copper as copper has a high thermal conduction value, this basically means that it is a good conductor of heat so a lot of the heat the copper receives will be passed on to the water which I am then able to measure. During the experiment I will be taking a number of measurements, I will firstly take the initial temperature of the water and initial

  • Elements of Western, Comedy and Thriller in Jarmusch’s Film Dead Man

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    Thriller-like tension. For example, in the first scene, when Blake is traveling, many interesting passengers ride along with him on the train. The train conductor sits across from Blake and warns him of his destination, the town of Machine. The conductor tells Blake that Machine is the “end of the line.” These are very ominous words. The conductor also states that Blake is likely to find his grave there. A gunshot is then fired. These are actions and dialogue not regular to Westerns. This scene brings

  • Igor Stravinsky

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    and contrast, but also language to convey his point of view about the conductors of the time and their extreme egotism. Stravinsky believes that conductors exploit the music for their own personal gain, so rather, he looks on them in a negative light. To show his aggravation and irritation, Stravinsky uses the rhetorical device of comparison and contrast to convey his opinion of conductors. He compares the "great" conductors to "great" actors in that "[they] are unable to play anything but themselves"