Sentences with phrase «electrical charge between»

Static electricity results from a difference in electrical charge between two surfaces.

In essence, this would be a detailed, real - time motion picture of the circuits of the brain at work, built up from imagery of the electrical charges between neurons.

Not exact matches

In other planning board business, board members agreed to propose to the town board that the town waive usually - required parking fees for the Bradley Meadows complex, where Sunflower is currently undergoing expansion, due the property owner's commitment of between $ 15,000 and $ 18,000 to put in rapid charging stations for electrical vehicles.

To transmit electrical signals along a neuron, a strong difference in charge between the interior and exterior of the cell is needed, which is created by pumping positive ions into the cell.

As batteries are used and charged, the electrochemical reaction results in the movement of ions between the two electrodes of a battery, which is the essence of an electrical current.

When the charge separation becomes too much for the air to resist, an electrical pulse — lightning — zaps between the charged regions.

They dunk a positively charged graphite electrode into the salt and pass an electrical voltage between the electrode and the side of the crucible.

In his system, Krupenkin runs this process backwards, using the changing physical form of liquid drops between dielectric - coated plates to generate charge and therefore electrical power.

When this part of the tire surface comes into contact with the ground, the friction between those two surfaces ultimately produces an electrical charge - a type of contact electrification known as the triboelectric effect.

The best explanation is that collisions between small ice particles and heavier gobs of slush called graupel tend to transfer electrical charge, but the role of this process in real clouds is not proven.

«We've shown show that this photo - induced doping arises from microscopically coupled optical and electrical responses in the GBN heterostructures, including optical excitation of defect transitions in boron nitride, electrical transport in graphene, and charge transfer between boron nitride and graphene,» Wang says.

Cross thinks that if he can control the way the ribbons form and stack, he might be able to use them as transistors (electrical switches), capacitors (devices that store electrical charge) or connections between electrically conductive graphene sheets.

Along with potassium, they create a membrane potential, or electrochemical gradient, between cells; the resulting electrical charges carry nerve impulses, contract muscle cells and help regulate your heartbeat.

Providing insight into a frustrating inconsistency in the performance of electronics made with organic materials, Stanford researchers have shown that the way boundaries between individual crystals in a film are aligned can make a 70-fold difference in how easily current, or electrical charges, can move through transistors.

Seems like the investment of Warren Buffet's MidAmerican Energy Holdings in Shezhen - based BYD Auto is not just a bet on electric vehicles, but also on the collaboration between MidAmerican and BYD to develop «rapid charge batteries» for electrical grid systems to serve as energy storage for renewable but intermittent power such as wind and solar, revealed MidAmerican's chairman, David Sokal, at a press conference earlier this week in Hong Kong.

As Mike has reported previously, the F3DM — which can be charged using a standard electrical outlet — can switch between a fully electric mode and a hybrid one that uses both electricity and gasoline.

Ring can be hardwired to your existing doorbell's electrical leads, but lacking any doorbell at all, I opted to use the device's internal battery, which is charged with a USB cable (just like any typical mobile device), and is rated to last one year between charges.

This setup regulates the electrical charge via those outer plates, moving the inner material back and forth between positive and negative to vibrate the molecules in the air and create sound waves.

If you were to accidentally plug the free end of your Nexus charging cable into another charging brick, the electrical current would flow between the two, which is a huge fire hazard.