Resistance | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Jim Al-Khalili explains how, as we made microchips smaller, the electrical feature of resistance was becoming more probl...
Alternating current | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Nikola Tesla invented alternating current (AC) which allowed no electrical power to be lost when passing throug...
What is electricity | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
An electric current is essentially the flow of electrons (which are electrically charged) from one atom to anot...
Voltaic Pile | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Invented by Italian chemist Alessandro Volta in 1799, the voltaic pile was the first electrical battery that could con...
Positive and negative charges | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Benjamin Franklin discovered that electricity could be like money in a bank, it could be in credit (p...
Ohm's law | GCSE Bitesize Revision
. Ohm's law V = IR with worked example narrated slides.
Alternating and direct current | Additional Science 2
Spec references J249: P8.2h J250: P6.2g. Alternating and direct current. Description and animation.
A Bang Goes the Theory special event showing how much electricity we use without even thinking about it. The gang attempts to power a house...
Jim Al-Khalili concludes by looking at how, if we could understand the secret of electrical supercon...
Jim Al-Khalili shows how harnessing the link between magnetism and electricity transformed the world, allow...
Jim Al-Khalili tells how the first 'natural philosophers' began to unlock electricity's mysteries, studying its curious li...
Spec references J249: P8.2j J250: P6.2i. Animation showing domestic fuses and fuse boxes. Use of P = I V to choose the correct fuse.
Spec references J249: P8.2i J250: P6.2h. Animation - purpose of the earth wire.
Spec references J249: P8.2i J250: P6.2h. Wiring a plug. Animation with method to remember wire colour.
Spec references J249: P3.1b, P3.1c, P3.1d. Uses of electrostatics - photocopier - animation and descrip...
Spec references J249: P3.1b, P3.1c, P3.1d. Uses of electrostatics - the electrostat...
Spec references J249: P3.1c J250: P3.1c. Discharging charged objects and dangers nuisance of static electricity...
Spec references J249: P3.2l, P3.2m J250: P3.2l, P3.2m . Description of electrical power, P = I V, watts and kilowatts. Narrated sl...
Spec references J249: P3.2g, P3.2h J250: P3.2g, P3.2h. Non-ohmic conductors - diode. Circuit symbol, electrical characteristic and descrip...
Spec references J249: P3.2g, P3.2h J250: P3.2g, P3.2h. Non-ohmic conductors - LDR. Circuit symbol, electrical charact...
. Non-ohmic conductors - thermistor. Circuit symbol, electrical characteristic and description. Narrated slides.
. Non-ohmic conductors - filament lamp. Circuit symbol, electrical characteristic and description. Narrated slides.
Spec references J249: P3.2b J250: P3.2b. Circuit symbols - narrated slides.
Spec references J249: P3.2a J250: P3.2a. Voltage (potential difference) in series and parallel circuits.
Spec references J249: P3.2c J250: P3.2c. What is voltage (potential difference) and how is it measured? Animation and description.
Spec references J249: P3.2a, P3.1f J250: P3.2a, P3.1e . Animated explanation of a current in series and parallel c...
Spec references J249: P3.1e, P3.1f, P3.2a, P3.2b J250: P3.1d, P3.1e, P3.2a, P3.2b. Circuit symbols, differences between...
Animated shorts to support students preparing for assessments in GCSE Additional Science.
A revision programme covering electricity.
Schools science programme where topics in the double science curriculum are broken down into small chunks.
Dr Helen Czerski explains how planes are protected from lightning.
Jim Al-Khalili looks at how, in 1986, IBM researchers discovered a breakthrough regarding superconductivity in cera...
Jim Al-Khalili explores the race between scientists to create a reliable way to amplify electrical signals, and i...
Jim Al-Khalili explains the importance of semiconductors, particularly with regard to fighting WWII.
Jim Al-Khalili explores how Ernest Rutherford's work on the atom revealed what electricity was on ...
Jim Al-Khalili explains how William Crooks experimented with sending electrical currents through a vacuum.
Jim Al-Khalili explores how JC Bose and his wave detector made use of crystals to conduct electricity.
Jim Al-Khalili explains Michael Faraday's theory that any electrical charge can create a forcefield surroundi...
Jim Al-Khalili explores the history of Thomas Edison's first incandescent light bulb.
Jim Al-Khalili explains how an electromagnet works and how it paved the way for the birth of the tele...
A Leyden jar is a device for storing static electricity, discovered accidentally in Leiden, Netherlands.
Stephen Gray, a silk dyer, was used to seeing sparks leap from the silk so he began experiments conductin...
Hannah Fry describes the first moment Nikola Tesla demonstrated the power of electricity.
Mark Miodownik explores the scientific achievements of Michael Faraday. He linked ideas of motion and ma...
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