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electricity, homemade coin battery a battery that makes cents/sense
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 2:18 pm
by deleted-353109
Which is more of the actual electricity in a homemade coin battery, the voltage or the current?
Please respond ASAP
Re: electricity, homemade coin battery a battery that makes cents/sense
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 3:59 pm
by norman40
Hi Sci3nc3Stuff,
I’m assuming that you’re working on the project described here:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ml#summary
Each cell (one stack of penny/electrolyte/nickel) of this kind of battery produces about 0.2 volts and about 0.1 milliamps of current. Voltage and current are two different descriptors of electrical charge. Voltage refers to the amount of energy that is moving the charge. Current refers to the rate that the charge is moving. A more detailed (and much better) explantation is at the following link:
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/vo ... d-ohms-law
I hope this helps. Please post again if you have more questions.
A. Norman