GCSE Physics


Supplies of electricity come in all shapes and sizes. The computer you are using is probably plugged in to the mains - but you might be reading this on a mobile phone!

Small things - like mobile phones - often run on batteries. But you have to plug them in to the mains to recharge their batteries!

mobile phone plugged in and recharging with a transformer to alter the voltage of the electrical supply

Connecting 230 V to a mobile phone battery would make it explode (don't try it!). To recharge safely a lower voltage is needed. The mobile phone charger contains a transformer to do this.

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