{"id":38,"date":"2019-01-21T15:40:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T20:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=38"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:02:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T18:02:14","slug":"voltage","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/chapter\/voltage\/","title":{"raw":"Voltage","rendered":"Voltage"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--exercises\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">Before starting the chapter, let's see how much you know!<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[h5p id=\"6\"]<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<strong>Voltage <\/strong>is defined as the potential difference between two points of a conducting wire. It is used to measure EMF or potential difference.\u00a0A volt is the amount of potential necessary to cause 1 coulomb to produce 1 joule of work.\r\n\r\nVoltage is the force that pushes the electrons through a wire and is often referred to as electrical pressure.\u00a0It is important to remember that voltage does not flow. It is the pressure that causes the electrons to flow, or the pressure that causes current.\r\n\r\nCurrent is directly proportional to the voltage. If the voltage goes up, the current goes up and vice versa.\u00a0Voltage must be present in order for current to flow.\r\n\r\nThe symbol <strong>E<\/strong> or <strong>V<\/strong> is used for voltage.","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--exercises\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">Before starting the chapter, let&#8217;s see how much you know!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div id=\"h5p-6\">\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-6\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"6\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Test your Voltage Knowledge\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Voltage <\/strong>is defined as the potential difference between two points of a conducting wire. It is used to measure EMF or potential difference.\u00a0A volt is the amount of potential necessary to cause 1 coulomb to produce 1 joule of work.<\/p>\n<p>Voltage is the force that pushes the electrons through a wire and is often referred to as electrical pressure.\u00a0It is important to remember that voltage does not flow. It is the pressure that causes the electrons to flow, or the pressure that causes current.<\/p>\n<p>Current is directly proportional to the voltage. If the voltage goes up, the current goes up and vice versa.\u00a0Voltage must be present in order for current to flow.<\/p>\n<p>The symbol <strong>E<\/strong> or <strong>V<\/strong> is used for voltage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":422,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-38","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/38\/revisions\/311"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/38\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/basicelectricity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}