July 11, 2012

Today we performed the lemon battery lab in which we created voltages that increased with the amount of lemons we used.

Next, we continued on with our study of electricity by learning two new equations about electric potential energy, and electric potential.
Electric potential = voltage (V).
Electric potential energy:
U[e] = qv
    Afterwards, we went onto take our circuits test.

RWC:
At your typical science fair nowadays, you'll most likely see someone with a potato battery powering a lightbulb or a clock. This uses the exact same concepts that our lemon batteries used in which one source of positively charged particles reacts with another side of negatively charged particles to create the energy needed to power a small device such as a clock or calculator.