What is a property?
A property is a characteristic of a material that allows the material to be distinguished from other materials.
What is a conductor?
A conductor is a material that allows electricity to flow through the material.
What is an insulator or nonconductor?
A nonconductor or insulator is a material that does not allow electricity to easily flow through the material.
What is a semiconductor?
A semiconductor is a material that allows a small part of electricity to flow through the material.
What is a battery?
A battery is a device that stores chemical potential energy and converts this energy to electrical energy.
What is an electrical circuit?
An electrical circuit is a complete path for electricity to flow through.
What is electrical current?
Electrical current is the flow of charge carriers from one point to another point.
What is the carrier of current?
Electrons are the most common carriers of electrical current.
What is an electron?
Electrons are subatomic particles with a charge of negative one (-1) that can be bound to an atom or free to move between atoms.
What is an ammeter?
An ammeter is a device that measures the flow of charge per unit time, called current, through a circuit.
Various properties are used to identify substances. One such property is the ability to conduct electricity through a circuit. Can you determine which materials are conductors and which are nonconductors of electrical charge? Get started now with your investigation of conductors.
