Alternating Current?

Question

How does alternating current work?? What is it?? How can you produce alternating current?? What are some applications of alternating current?

Answer 1

really quick stupid answer... here goes..

imagine one energetic happy bundle of electrons.. you need power to your house.. power plant sends those electrons to your home, but since it is such a far travel, they lose some electrons due to friction, heat,.. etc.. by the time they get to your home, they have much less energy than they started with...that is DIRECT current.

Now, imagine that power line, say, every foot,  contains a bundle of electrons.  the inital bundle transfers its power to the next, than that transfers to the next.. and so on.. the first one goes to the power plant, picks up energy, moves a foot, transfers that energy, than goes back to the power plant to pick up more energy than repeats the process..  this results in more energy at your home, and less lost .. this is ALTERNATING current

Answer 2

Alternating current is current that changes direction constantly. Alternating current is produced by means of induction. Moving an inductor back and forth through a magnetic field multiple times causes the change in direction. Faraday's Law states that a change in magnetic flux (number of field lines through a surface) over time induces an emf and a current.

As an example, 60 Hz indicates moving an inductor back and forth through a magnetic field 60 times a second.

Alternating current is used in homes, transformers, and other areas.

Answer 3

cureent changes rapidly ac current