Books with title What Is Electricity?

What is electricity and how do we use it? Follow your cartoon guide in Electricity as he travels through circuits, generators, and even the human body to find out! Through bright and colorful comic-book-style pages, kids can explore how static and current electricity work. They will have fun learning about conductors, the invention of electric power, and its sources. World Book’s Building Blocks of Physical Science series makes complex STEM lessons exciting for young learners with a primary reading level grades 3 through 5. Each nonfiction book pairs humor and action with scientifically accurate information to make even the most difficult topics amusing and easy to understand. Kids will eagerly learn the fundamentals of physics through such volumes as Energy, Magnetism, and Matter and How It Changes. Helpful glossaries and indexes in each volume direct readers to the most important terms and topics. Materials for further exploration are suggested in lists of additional resources. Give budding scientists a head start with World Book’s fun Building Blocks series!

Electricity Made Simple covers the fundamental principles underlying every aspect of electricity. The book discusses current; resistance including its measurement, Kirchhoff’s laws, and resistors; electroheat, electromagnetics and electrochemistry; and the motor and generator effects of electromagnetic forces. The text also describes alternating current, circuits and inductors, alternating current circuits, and a.c. generators and motors. Other methods of generating electromagnetic forces are also considered. The book is useful for electrical engineering students.

Readers will be electrified by this dazzling exploration of how electricity works. With relatable examples of electronics they can find at home, this colorful book will fuel readers’ curiosity while expanding their understanding of electricity and its uses. Accessible information about circuits, conductors, and cells will help readers grasp the fundamentals of electricity. Fun experiments—such as building a robot head or making an electronic switch—bring these lessons to life in a safe, manageable, and exciting way.