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Physics · 术语表

什么是 Voltage?

又称: volt

Definition 56.1 Primary & Middle School Physics · 第 56 章 — Voltage and the Voltmeter

The voltage UU between two points of a circuit measures the electrical push available between them — how hard the current is driven from one point to the other, as a waterfall’s height measures how hard it drives the millwheel. Voltage is always a between: between the two terminals of a battery, between the two sides of a lamp — never at a single point alone. Its unit is the volt (V\mathrm{V}), honoring the inventor of the first battery.

示例

Example 56.2 (The volt family album)

A single round cell: 1.5 V1.5\,\mathrm{V}. The flat pocket battery: 4.5 V4.5\,\mathrm{V} — three cells nose-to-tail inside one wrapper. The rectangular nine-volt with both terminals on top: 9 V9\,\mathrm{V}, six hidden cells. A car battery: 12 V12\,\mathrm{V}. The wall socket: 230 V230\,\mathrm{V} — more than a hundred and fifty little cells’ worth of push, which is the whole quantitative content of “the socket, never”. Lightning between cloud and ground: hundreds of millions of volts, briefly.

Example 56.10 (The open switch’s confession)

Lamp dark, switch open — where did the push go? Measure: across the dark lamp, 0 V0\,\mathrm{V}; across the open switch, the full 4.5 V4.5\,\mathrm{V}. The battery’s push stands entire across the gap, waiting — the one place in the loop where two points are truly “far apart” electrically. Close the switch and the readings trade places. An open switch is where the voltage waits.

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