electricity

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• How the Power Grid Works
  How the power grid delivers electricity from plants to homes — generation, high-voltage transmission, grid balancing, frequency control, and transformers.
• How Nuclear Reactors Work
  How nuclear reactors split uranium atoms in a controlled chain reaction to make heat, steam, and electricity — fuel, control rods, and safety systems.
• Ohm's Law
  The linear relation between voltage, current, and resistance — V = IR — that is fundamental to circuit analysis.
• Maxwell's Equations
  The four equations that unify electricity and magnetism and predict electromagnetic waves traveling at the speed of light.
• Kirchhoff's Circuit Laws
  The two conservation laws that govern every electrical circuit: current conservation at nodes and voltage conservation around loops.
• Three-Phase Electric Power
  Why the world's power grids use three phases: constant power delivery, rotating fields, and cheaper conductors.