What Is Electricity? You use it every day, but what exactly is electricity? To understand it, we must go down to the very building blocks of matter itself: the atom. Without getting too complicated (and going down to the level of quantum mechanics), matter is comprised of atoms. Atoms are made up of three basic particles: protons, which are positively-charged particles; electrons, which are negatively-charged particles; and neutrons, which have no charge. An atom has …showed first 75 words of 1075 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1075 total…the extent that it is able to as a result of any opposing forces. If you tried to fit Niagara Falls through a garden hose, you'd only get so much water every second, no matter how high the falls, and no matter how much water was waiting to get through! And if you replace that hose with one that is of a larger diameter, you will get more water in the same amount of it