Electricity is defined as the presence and movement of electrical charges. Magnetism on the other hand is the property of an object to attract another object. Science historians say that ancient Greeks and maybe even earlier civilizations were already aware of electricity and magnetism but not much work was done on these two interesting phenomena [...]
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Electricity for most of us simply means electric power provided by the electric companies to households and industries so that devices, appliances and equipment that require such power can run. This is however not a precise definition of electricity. Electricity is a general term that covers a lot of different phenomena that comes about because [...]
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When we think of electricity and magnetism, we sometimes think they are magic because they can’t be seen by the naked eye but just like the wind, we know it is there because we can see the leaves of the trees moving by themselves or we can feel the cold on our skin but we [...]
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Discovering some things in the universe has often been accidental. Like when Isaac Newton made the theory of gravity, the electricity and magnetism theory has also been discovered accidentally. It was in 1820 when Hans Christian Orsted, a Danish physicist and chemist, was preparing his materials when he noticed that his steel compass was deflecting [...]
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