Eli5 : After seing the meme of a guy going back in time and unable to answer to the question “how is this so-called electricity made?”, I’m actually really asking myself the question.
In: Engineering
Gonna attempt this.
Electricity is what we call it when electrons, a tiny part of atoms, that make up everything, move through a thing (usually metal or “electrically conductive” material)
We can make that happen many ways, like rubbing two things together (static electricity from rubbing a balloon on your head), a magnet moved by a coil of copper wire (electro-magnetism).
When we make these electrons move, we call certain parts of that movement certain names to make things easier, voltage is how many electrons want to move through a wire, amperage is how many is moving at once, and ohms are how hard it is to move them through a thing.
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