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Delta Modern Language Schools
Science department
Grade 6
1st term 2024- 2025
➢ If a wire wrapped around a metal core, the magnetic field produced by the
flowing current is strengthened, so the metal core attracts the iron nails.
➢ Electricity and magnetism can work together.
Electricity
It is the form of energy that comes from a flow of electrons moving along a path.
Electric current:
It is the flow of electric charges along a closed path.
Electric circuit:
It is a path for transmitting an electric current.
The component of electric circuit
1-Metal wire.
2-Electric power source (battery).
3-A switch.
4-An electric device.
The switch:
The switch is a tool to close or open the electric circuit.
A switch can be manual.
A switch can be automatic such as the internal switch on a thermostat,
which adjusts the temperature inside devices.
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