| Show Is electricity an anonymous writer in new science review offers the following definition for criticism it would appear that j electricity is simply a form or mani-ffeestation that the one force better spoken of as energy may assume un-der given conditions and generally it is a mere transitory stage between the mechanical form and the heat form in most operations mechanical force passes to the heat form but whenever magnetism is brought into play as a re sistance that must be overcome then mechanical power applied to overcome this resistance always becomes elec-ttrriicciittyy if only momentarily in its pas-sage from the mechanical to the heat form can we not answer in a fairly satisfactory way the question what is electricity by saying that it is sim-ply a form that energy may assume while undergoing transformation from the mechanical or the chemical form to the heat form or the reverse |
