BCP 101 EL: v1 (First Timers)

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONS:  If the nucleus in an atom was the size of a basketball, the electrons circling it would be the size of baseballs.

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONS:  The electron is 1/1800 of the weight of a proton.

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONS: Electricity is the movement of the protons in and around atoms in, for instance, a copper wire.

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONS: When electricity travels through a wire in a house, usually the wire the electrons are moving through in a house is made of either copper or aluminum.

HOUSE ELECTRICITY AND NERVE ELECTRICITY: Electricity in wires and batteries is the “movement” of electrons.

HOUSE ELECTRICITY AND NERVE ELECTRICITY:  Electricity in wires is the “movement” of positively charged electrons.

HOUSE ELECTRICITY AND NERVE ELECTRICITY:  Electricity in nerves is the movement of positively charged atoms (ions) into the nerves.

HOUSE ELECTRICITY AND NERVE ELECTRICITY: House electricity is negative and so is nerve electricity. 

HOUSE ELECTRICITY AND NERVE ELECTRICITY: Nerve electricity uses positively charged sodium atoms. Charged atoms are called ions.

HOUSE ELECTRICITY AND NERVE ELECTRICITY: Sodium ions are positively charged because an electron is knocked off the atom.