How does electricity get stored ? How does it move down a cable? And will I slow it down if the cable is curved or bent (the way water will in a hose)
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Electricity is a general term used to define energy in the form of charged particles. Charge is what is stored. Before I go there, I’ll need to define a few terms.
A circuit is a path from high potential to low potential (voltage). Technically the opposite, but we use hole flow to better analyze circuits.
At any point on a circuit, the amount of charge through that specific point per second is called an Amp (represented by I) 1 Amp = 1 coloumb per second.
A coloumb is a measurement of charge. (1/(1.602176…×10^-19)). This gets into particle physics, which is out of the scope of the question. But a coloumb is a measurement of charge.
Charge is stored in capacitors (Or batteries, but those batteries are often a result of chemical engineering and way out of my expertise). Capactiors have parralel seperated by a dialectric (non conducting substrate). The amount of charge a capacitor can hold is measured in farads.
A farad is defined by the 1 coloumb (charge) per 1 volt (electric potential).
As far as current slowing down. Yeah, a little bit, but current flows at the speed of light (multipled by some conductivity factor between 0 and 1) so any minor change on speed would be pretty null.
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