Static Electricity
The positively charged part of the atom
What is a proton?
The equation for total resistance in a series circuit.
What is R1 + R2 + R3 = RTOTAL?
The equation for total current in a parallel circuit
What is ITOTAL = I1+I2+I3+...
The direction that the electric field lines point towards for a negative point charge
What is inwards?
For a circuit with three resistors in parallel, with 10 Ohms, 20 Ohms, and 50 Ohms, determine the equivalent resistance, and total current, if the Voltage across the circuit is 5 V. Approximate your answer to the first two decimal places.
What is REQ = 5.88 Ohms and ITOTAL = 0.85 A
The method of charging by rubbing electrons off from one surface to another
What is friction?
The equation for total voltage in a series circuit.
What is V1+V2+V3 = VTOTAL?
The equation for total voltage in a parallel circuit.
What is VTOTAL = V1 = V2 = V3 = ...
What current measures
What is the rate of flow of charge?
The materials that compose insulators and conductors, respectively.
What are non-metals and metals?
What it means for a circuit to be in series.
What it means for a circuit to be in parallel.
What is there are multiple paths for current to flow through
What creates an electric field
What is a charged object?
The smallest part of the atom
What is the electron?
The reason why current is the same across all resistors in a series circuit.
What is there is only one path for current to flow through, so it is the same everywhere?
When you add a resistor to an already existing parallel circuit, what happens to the equivalent resistance.
What is REQ goes down?
Two factors that affect voltage (electric potential).
What are distance and charge? Or Current and Resistance
The type of interaction when a neutral object comes near a negatively charged object.
If the voltage in a series circuit is increased, without changing anything else, what happens to the current?
What is it increases?
The reason why resistance is added inversely for a parallel circuit.
The direction that charge moves in a circuit, and the direction of conventional current in a circuit, respectively.
What is from negative to positive, and from positive to negative?