Voltage

For my physics blog post this week on voltage I put together a picture of a man standing in the middle of a grass field and a lighting storm. I chose to do this because the first thing I think of when I think of voltage is lighting. I looked it up online and found that lightning contains anywhere from 1 million to 1 billion volts…whoa! That’s a lot. The most important equation in this chapter is V = PE/q because this equation helps you calculate voltage. I also learned that the number of joules (PE) doesn’t matter. What does matter is the amount of q an object has. The higher the objects charge, the more dangerous it becomes. That’s what lightning bolts are dangerous and possibly fatal.