Ele3ctricity

So we learned about circuits, currents, resistance, voltages, amps, etc. but now we have this assignment where we have to find what appliances in the house use the most and less electricity. what i learned from doing this assignment is that every appliance has numbers either on the bottom or on the sticker on the side that usually list the voltage and the Amps, and sometimes the resistance. By using the equation V=IR, I could find the resistance, voltage, and current for almost all my appliances. The appliances in my house that use the most volts is the Drier and the Oven. I'm pretty sure it is because it uses a lot more heat than the other appliances which uses more volts or electricity. did you know a hair straightener uses the same amount of volts as an oven? well yep, it does, I checked. A hair straightener uses 240 volts, well it makes sense considering the fact that it can heat up to around 450 degrees (i'm pretty sure that temperature will burn you hair). So we were encouraged to do a small kind of electricity challenge to see how much energy we could save by cutting back on things. There are seven people in my household, and the monthly bill isn't that much; its around $175. My mom is a fanatic about turning the lights off. When we leave for a vacation or trip, she shuts off the power box. She'll wake up at two in the morning to turn any lights or fans off, and we have power outlets to plug our laptops and appliances in so she can switch it off. So i guess most of the electricity is used when we take a shower because there is a water heater in our house that doesn't have a timer, and i don't know how to time it. Also the oven and stove cause we bake a lot. It's not too hard to conserve electricity.