TRANSFORMERS

This is a picture of a transformer right outside of my house! I went outside of my house this morning and saw this transformer. I immediately took a picture because I knew this would be great to use for my journal. My whoe life I never realized there was a transformer right outside of my house. Thanks to Mr. Kohara and physics, I not only know that there is a transformer outside my house but how the transformer works. Electricity basically needs to be transfered from the power source to places like my home. The energy that the source sends out is much greater than what our houses need. That is where the transformers come in. It basically transfers the energy from a high voltage and steps down the voltage to the standard voltage of 120V, which our houses require. If it was not for the transformers, all our houses would be on fire because then the energy sent from the source would go straight to the houses and exceed the voltage in which the houses can handle. Thanks to the transformer, my house can safely use the energy without having to worry about creating fires from too high to handle voltages.