Terms
The general term for electrical phenomena.
What is electricity?
The SI unit for electric charge.
What is a Coulomb?
An electric circuit in which electrical devices are connected along a single loop of wire such that the same current is in each device.
What are positive and negative charges from electrons and protons?
Follows the inverse square law and shows the relationship between electrical force, charge, and distance.
What is Coulomb's law?
The study of electric charge at rest.
What is electrostatics?
The SI unit for measuring resistance.
What is an Ohm?
An electric circuit in which electrical devices are connected in such a way that the same voltage acts across each one, and any single one completes the circuit independently of the others.
What is a parallel circuit?
Electrons transferring from one material or object to another through simple touching.
What is charging by contact?
What is electric potential?
What is an electric field?
The unit that measures the rate of flow in an electric current.
What is an ampere or amp?
What is direct current (dc)?
What is charging by induction?
Current = voltage/resistance
What is Ohm's law?
The energy a charged object possesses by virtue of it location in an electric field.
What is electric potential energy?
The unit of electric potential difference.
What is a volt?
What is alternating current (ac)?
A material that allows free charged particles to move easily through it when an electrical force acts on it.
What is a conductor?
Power = current x voltage
What is electric power?
What is electric current?
Unit that measures electrical power.
What is a watt?
An example of ac current.
What is a battery?
What is household electricity?
A material that does not allow free charged particles to move through and charge does not easily flow.
What is an insulator?
6.25x1018 electrons per second
What is 1 coulomb?