I have been in multiple classes that I needed to learn what grounding is, and I have watched lots of videos, but the thing Is I never really understood it. Pls help me I’m begging you.
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When you lift a ball up into the air and drop it, it falls… to the ground. That’s because lifting the ball up into the air gives the ball gravitational potential energy, which is expended when the ball falls.
Electrical energy works in a similar way. Voltage is like height, in that it indicates a certain potential energy difference between two spots. Higher voltage, higher potential.
So in this case, “ground” is just the lowest point in the circuit–it’s where all the electricity is trying to get to when you release the electricity into the circuit. It can also be a verb meaning “to create a pathway to ground in a circuit.”
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