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NASA Why? Files - The Case of the Electrical Mystery

by: NASA LaRC Office of Education

Publication date: 1/16/2002

Topics: NASA Why? Files, Experiment, Student Activity, Circuits, Light Bulb, Battery, Wires, Series Circuit, Electricity, Parallel Circuit, Complex Circuits, Lightning, Electrical Charges, Greeks, Amber, Wool, Fossilized Tree Sap, Fiber, Hair, Paper, Comb, Repel, Uncharged, Attract, Positive, Negative, Protons, Electrons, Neutral, Neutrons, Particles, Air, Electrical Circuits, Load, Circuit, Power Source, Energy, Work, Battery, Conductor, Wires, Simple Circuit, Voltage, Electrons, Light Bulb, Closed Circuit, Open Circuit, Fuses, Circuit Breakers, Electric Charges, Electrons, Lightning, Battery, Socket, Power, Solar Power, Solar Cells, Physics, Wires, Energy, Work, Chemical Energy, Mechanical Motion, Power Company, Current, Sources of Energy, Wind Power, Natural Gas, Coal, Oil, Nuclear Fission, Steam, Turbines, Generator, Niagara Falls Power Project, Hydro Power, Benjamin Franklin, Lightning, Electrical Spark, Copper, Zinc, Alessandro Volta, Thomas Edison, Generator, Electrical Current, Nikola Tesla, Alternating Current, Niagara Falls, Thunderstorm, Cloud, Ground, Channel, Volt, Discharge, Cloud To Cloud Lightning, NASA Langley, Aircraft, Lightning Strikes, Turbulence, Cockpit, Nose Boom, Sparks, Power Outage, Short Circuit, Overload, Electricity, Niagara Power Project, Canada, United States, Power Plant, Niagara River, New York Ontario, Niagara Falls, Hydro-Electrical Power Plant, Generator, Kilowatts, Forebay, Canal, Reservoir, Turbines, Mechanical Energy, Water, Power Outage, Equipment Failures, Severe Storms, Overload, Power Company, Generator, Voltage, Power Plant, Electricity, Wires, Substations, Transformer, Kilowatt Hour, Utility, Underground Powerline, Public Damage,

Language: en

NASA Why? Files video containing the following nine segments. NASA Why? Files segment involving students in an activity studying circuits and how the different types and combinations of circuits work. NASA Why? Files segment exploring lightning and the different types of electrical charges. NASA Why? Files segment exploring the basics of electrical circuits. NASA Why? Files segment explaining the forms of electricity and the many sources of power. NASA Why? Files segment exploring the history of electricity with Dr. Textbook. NASA Why? Files segment explaining lightning and how it works. NASA Why? Files segment exploring circuits in more depth. NASA Why? Files segment exploring the Niagara Power Project and how it works. NASA Why? Files segment explaining power companies and what public damage is.