{"id":166,"date":"2009-07-27T06:18:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T06:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog2\/?p=166"},"modified":"2011-04-28T02:56:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T07:56:22","slug":"uncommon-questions-about-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/166\/uncommon-questions-about-electricity","title":{"rendered":"(Un)Common Questions about Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I first began learning about electronics and electricity, there were a number of seemingly obvious questions that never seemed to be answered by my professors, books, or articles on electricity; I had to scrape together answers gradually, gathering knowledge from every source I could find.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m collecting these questions and answers here in the hopes that they will someday save some poor internet-goer like yourself from all the trouble I had to go through.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"heading\">Contents<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/176\/why-do-we-use-alternating-current-ac-instead-of-direct-current-dc-in-power-lines\">Why do we use Alternating Current (AC) instead of Direct Current (DC) in power lines?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/179\/does-electricity-flow-from-positive-to-negative-or-from-negative-to-positive\">Does electricity flow from positive (+) to negative (-) or from negative to positive?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/184\/whats-the-difference-between-voltage-at-a-point-and-voltage-between-two-points-also-what-is-ground\">What&#8217;s the difference between &quot;voltage at a point&quot; and &quot;voltage between two points?&quot; Also, what is &#8216;ground?&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/185\/how-fast-do-electrons-move-in-a-circuit\">How fast do electrons move in a circuit?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/187\/why-can-the-resistor-go-at-the-beginning-of-the-circuit-or-at-the-end\">Why can the resistor go at the beginning of the circuit <em>or<\/em> at the end?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/189\/whats-the-difference-between-neutral-and-ground\">What&#8217;s the difference between neutral and ground?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/190\/how-is-it-possible-that-theres-not-a-complete-circuit-to-the-power-plant\">How is it possible that there&#8217;s not a complete circuit to the power plant?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/192\/how-does-jump-starting-a-car-work-if-current-only-flows-when-theres-a-difference-in-voltage\">How does jump starting a car work if current only flows when there&#8217;s a difference in voltage?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/194\/do-transformers-obey-ohms-law\">Do transformers obey Ohm&#8217;s Law?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first began learning about electronics and electricity, there were a number of seemingly obvious questions that never seemed to be answered by my professors, books, or articles on electricity; I had to scrape together answers gradually, gathering knowledge from every source I could find. I&#8217;m collecting these questions and answers here in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}