Connection for AP® Courses Relating to Electric Current, Resistance, and Ohm's Law

Connection for AP® Courses Relating to Electric Current, Resistance, and Ohm's Law

This text provides a brief introduction to current; ohm’s law: resistance & simple circuits; resistance & resistivity; electric power & energy; alternating current versus direct current; electric hazards & the human body; and nerve conduction–electrocardiograms. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.

Topics

  • Conduction
  • AC
  • Action potential
  • Alternating current
  • Amp
  • Axon
  • Bioelectricity
  • Dendrite
  • Direct current
  • Drift velocity
  • Electric
  • Electric current
  • Electrocardiogram
  • Electron
  • Hazard
  • Impermeable
  • Kilowatt
  • Kilowatt-hour
  • Membrane
  • Microshock
  • Nerve
  • Neuron
  • Ohm
  • Ohmic
  • Resistivity
  • Root mean square
  • Semipermeable
  • Sensitive
  • Shock
  • Short
  • Simple circuit
  • Superconductor
  • Synapse
  • Temperature coefficient of
  • Thermal
  • Ampere
  • Energy
  • resistivity
  • Power
  • Circuit
  • Temperature
  • Electricity
  • ECG
  • Resistance
  • Short circuit
  • Current
  • Voltage
  • Wave
  • DC
  • Ohm’s law