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1. What are the basic electrical components in your home (starting with the powe

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Question

1. What are the basic electrical components in your home (starting with the power pole on the street) that are needed to provide electricity to all parts of your house? What does a transformer do? What about a breaker box, light switch, or a toaster? 2. How can you make a molecular mass selector using uniform electric and magnetic fields? How can you use it to separate out molecules of different masses? 3. What is the origin of the earth’s magnetic field? How do we know it is there? Do all the planets in our solar system have a magnetic field,…why/why not? How can we tell? What do the magnetic field lines represent? 4. What is color? How you perceive the color red?

Explanation / Answer

Power travels through the distribution line from substation to street pole, where there is transformer used to
step by the voltage from high to low for home purpose. It connects to your house through the service drop and
passes through a meter that measures how much our family uses.The electricity goes to the service panelwhere
breakers or fuses protect the wires inside your house from being overloaded.

The electricity travels through wires inside the walls to the outlets and switches all over house.
All the home applianes are connected in parallel, like fan, bulbs, toasters, refrigerators, heaters, Air coolers.
Fuses and circuit breakers are saftey devices.