As You Are Cooking, You Accidentally Touch the Burner of the Stove

question 19

True/False

As you are cooking, you accidentally touch the burner of the stove. You jerk your hand away by contracting muscles in your arm to pull your forearm  toward the arm. This movement is flexion.

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Definitions:

Inverse Time-Delay

A characteristic of certain protective devices where the time taken to interrupt the current decreases as the magnitude of the fault current increases.

Melting Alloy

A mixture of two or more metals melted together to create a new material with specific desirable properties.

Bimetallic

Pertaining to an object made of two different metals bonded together, often used in temperature sensing applications.

Motor Starter

An electrical device that controls the use of electrical power to equipment, usually an electric motor, by initiating the stop/start command.