Electricity
The subatomic particle with negative charge
What is an electron?
The standard unit of energy
What is the joule?
A coil of wire wrapped into a cylinder
What is a solenoid?
The phenomenon where time passes more slowly for an object moving near the speed of light
What is time dilation?
The electromagnetic wave that can pass through soft tissue but not through bone
What is X-ray?
The unit of electric charge
What is the coulomb?
The difference in electric potential between two points in an electric field
What is voltage?
The fundamental unit of magnetism, as stated in the resource guide
What is the magnetic dipole?
The speed of an electromagnetic wave, in m/s
What is 3 x 10^8 m/s?
The phenomenon of vibrant light in the sky caused by charged particles deflected by Earth's magnetic field
What is the aurora?
The law that describes the force between two electric charges
What is Coulomb's law?
The two types of circuits mentioned in the resource guide
What is series and parallel?
The rule used to determine the direction of the magnetic force of a moving charge
What is the right-hand rule?
The physicist who discovered that light is an electromagnetic wave
Who is (James Clerk) Maxwell?
The phenomenon that explains why rubbing a balloon on your hair makes it stick to a wall
What is polarization?
The electric field inside a conductor (numerical value)
What is 0?
The law that relates voltage, current, and resistance
What is Ohm's law?
The type of electric current that transformers work with
What is alternating current (AC)?
The name of Einstein's 1905 paper that reconciled electric and magnetic fields as different aspects of a single electromagnetic field
What is On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies?
The person credited with inventing the first true battery, the voltaic pile
Who is Alessandro Volta?
The law that describes the amount of electric field that passes through a geometric shape enclosing a charge
What is Gauss's law?
The effect of placing a dielectric material between capacitor plates
What is increasing the amount of charge stored (capacitance)?
The law that explains how a changing magnetic field can induce an electric current in a wire
What is Faraday's law?
The quantity that sums up the effects of relativity
What is the Lorentz factor?
The device that demonstrates static electricity using a moving belt
What is a Van de Graaff generator?