This video discusses the physics of electricity generation using animations and equations to explain the concepts.
Students will learn about electric generators, transformers, alternating current, and mutual inductance.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This video is ideal for an upper-level class.
The accompanying visuals make it easy to follow and understand.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with geometry functions and induction.
This video is lesson #35 of the Crash Course Physics course.
Differentiation
This could be used in a physics class to explain Faraday's law.
A portion of this video explains the technology behind wireless charging. Students can compare and contrast how energy is transmitted through wires and wireless transmission.
This video could spark a discussion on the various voltages across the world and why they differ. For example, European voltage compared to United States voltage.
This video could be used to clarify direct current and alternating current.
Scientist Notes
In order for electricity to power our lives, it needs to be generated and then distributed. This video explains this process and how we power our homes, schools, and offices. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
PS3: Energy
HS-PS3-5 Develop and use a model of two objects interacting through electric or magnetic fields to illustrate the forces between objects and the changes in energy of the objects due to the interaction.
PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
HS-PS4-1 Use mathematical representations to support a claim regarding relationships among the frequency, wavelength, and speed of waves traveling in various media.
HS-PS4-5 Communicate technical information about how some technological devices use the principles of wave behavior and wave interactions with matter to transmit and capture information and energy.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.2 Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.
