Students could look at the rapid changes to society that the invention of the internal combustion engine led to. The most obvious intervention was the car. How did the car change the lives of those who could afford one? How did Henry Ford's new manufacturing methods improve the speed of assembly and reduce the cost of production?
Arc Flash is the result of a rapid release of energy due to an arcing fault between a phase bus bar and another phase bus bar, neutral or a ground. During an arc fault the air is the conductor. Arc faults are generally limited to systems where the bus voltage is in excess of 120 volts.
Arc Flash - An arcing fault is the flow of current through the air between phase conductors or phase and neutral or ground. An arcing fault can release tremendous amounts of concentrated radiant energy at the point of the arcing in a small fraction of a second result.