VOCABULARY
STATIC ELECTRICITY & ELECTRIC CHARGE
ELECTRICAL ENERGY
ELECTRIC CURRENT
ELECTRIC CIRCUITS
100
The force between charged objects
What is an electric force
100
Size of the charges & the distance between the charges.
What two factors determines the strength of an electric force?
100
Converts chemical energy to electrical.
What is a cell?
100
The difference in charge between two electrodes.
What is potential difference?
100
A closed path through which electric charges flow.
What is a circuit?
200
Like charges repel & opposites charges attract.
What is the Law of Electric Charges?
200
CFI tell ya. Conduction, friction, and induction.
What are the three ways an object can become charged?
200
The metal zinc & copper strips in a cell.
What are electrodes?
200
The rate at which charge passes a given point.
What is current?
200
Load, energy source, & wire.
What are the parts of a circuit?
300
Charges in an uncharged object are rearrange without direct contact
What is induction
300
A device that determines if an object has a charge.
What is an electroscope?
300
A mixture of chemicals found in a cell.
What are electrolytes?
300
AC & DC...not AC/DC
What are the two main types of currents?
300
Electrons only have one path or road to take.
What is a series circuit?
400
Charges are neither created or destroyed when an object is charged.
What is Conservation of Charge?
400
Conductors & insulators.
What most materials can be divided into regarding moving charges?
400
Negative to positive.
What is the way electrons flow in a cell?
400
The difference in energy per unit charge as a charge moves between two points in the path of a current. Another word for potential difference.
What is voltage?
400
A circuit that has several branches or paths that electrons can take.
What is a parallel circuit?
500
A switch that automatically opens if the current in the circuit is too high.
What is a circuit breaker?
500
The build up of charges on an object.
What is static electricity?
500
Wet & dry.
What are the two main types of cells?
500
Material, thickness, length, temperature
What are the factors that determine resistance?
500
As more loads are added to this circuit, less power goes to each load.
What is a series circuit?
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