3.2 Static Electricity and Conduction

Causes and Effects

100

The increase of humidity causes static electricity to do this?

What is reducing?

200

This is the name of the effect to do with static electricity.

What is the triboelectric effect?

300

Walking across carpet on a dry day produces this amount of voltage.

What is 35,000 Volts?

400

These are the major causes of static electricity.

What is contact + friction/pressure + separation?

500

A relatively high humidity environment is desirable for static, but these are the negative effects.

What is extremely uncomfortable, equipment problems and contaminants?

Charges

100

This is what happens to like charges.

What is repel?

200

Two materials that are further apart on the series tend to develop ______ static charge.

What is more?

300

This is the name of the series in which all materials are ranked according to their tendency to gain or lose electrons.

What is the triboelectric series?

400

This is where charges like to accumulate on irregular metal objects.

What is points?

500

Large aircraft use these devices to help dissipate static electricity.

What are static discharge wicks?

Laws

100

This is Coulomb's Constant.

What is 6.25 x 10¹⁸ electrons?

200

Q is the symbol for ________.

What is charge?

300

This is the name of the law to do with charged bodies and their attraction/repulsion.

What is Coulomb's Law?

400

These are the two factors that affect the attracting or repelling force between two bodies.

What are their charges

and the distance between them?

500

If you double the distance, the charge between two objects is this.

What is one quarter?

States of Matter

100

This is how current flows in a solid.

What is electron flow or free electrons?

200

This conductive material has a datum of 1 and is used to compare other material's resistance.

What is copper?

300

This is how electricity flows in liquids.

What are ions?

400

This is the scientific name for how electricity flows in a vacuum.

What is thermionic emission?

500

This is the name of the scientist who discovered how electricity can flow in a vacuum.

Who is Edison?

Bonus* (double points)

200

Pick the material combo that produces more static.

Human body to glass, OR

Human body to rubber?

Human body to rubber.

300

F = k_e (q₁q₂)/s²

This formula is....

What is Coulomb's Law Equation?