What is electricity?

Basics of electricity, electrons, atoms and circuits. Technovation is a tech education nonprofit that inspires people around the world to believe in themselves as leaders and become more confident, curious problem solvers.

Electric Fields: Crash Course Physics #26

As we learn more about electricity, we have to talk about fields. Electric fields may seem complicated, but they’re really fascinating and a crucial part of physics. In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini chats about capacitors, conductors, electric field lines, and how objects with net charge generate electric fields.

Electric Charge: Crash Course Physics #25

Moving on to our unit on the Physics of Electricity, it’s time to talk about charge. What is charge? Is there a positive and negative charge? What do those things mean? In this episode, Shini talks about electrostatic forces, electrical charge, Coulomb’s law, and the force between charged particles.

Electric Vocabulary

We all know the words around electricity, “charge,” “positive,” “battery”, and more. But where do they come from and what do they really mean? Let the history of these words illuminate the physics of electric phenomena.

Can nanotechnology solve our battery production problem?

From smartphones and laptops to the rapidly growing EV market, we need an incredible amount of lithium-ion batteries to make it all work. Materials like lithium are difficult and time-consuming to mine and extract … and can have a major impact on the environment. Can nanotechnology solve our lithium extraction and mining problem? And maybe even help with solid-state batteries? I talk to Teague Egan from EnergyX about some interesting advancements in nanotech, metal-organic frameworks, and more.