You Have the Power
Project Description: This project presented a new set of challenges as it required quite a bit of creativity and patience to make it interesting, due to the fact that the corona virus pandemic prevented us from working with others and made us do everything at home. The project itself was fairly simple and provided quite a bit of freedom to do what we wished. The only requirement was that we had to cause a transfer of energy between two separate entities. For mine, I decided to charge an old phone with a potato and observe the transfer of chemical energy to electrical energy.
Concepts:
- Energy Transfer: the action in which energy passes from one place to another; this is done within my experiment as the chemical energy held within the potato's electrolytes change to electrical energy and pass through the cord to charge the phone.
- Closed Circuit: an electric circuit in which a current can flow along an unobstructed path; the circuit I created between the potato and the phone
- Chemical Energy: the potential of a chemical substance to undergo a chemical reaction to transform into other substances; the electrolytes of the potato converting to electrical energy
- Electrical Energy: a form of energy resulting from the flow of a charge; the current running through the wire and charging the phone