Static Electricity
Two charges that are attracted to eachother.
What are positive and negative charges?
The name for the type of circuit with only one branch and when the parts are wired one after another.
What is a series circuit?
The type of battery used in a car.
What is a wet-cell battery?
The units for electric current.
What are amperes?
This is neither a good conductor or a good insulator on its own, but can become a good conductor if the right material is added to it.
What is a semiconductor?
The force surrounding every electric charge that causes it to be attracted or repelled to other charges.
What is an electric field?
The type of circuit that most houses are wired with.
What are parallel circuits?
The type of battery with a dry paste electrolyte inside of it.
What is a dry-cell battery?
True or False: In an electric current, electrons move in a single direction.
True
Electric force is often stronger than this force.
What is gravity?
This type of air is conducive to giving you a shock after walking across a carpeted floor and then touching a metal doorknob.
What is dry air?
The law that states that the current of a circuit is equal to the voltage difference divided by the resistance.
The name for the two ends of a battery.
What are electrodes?
What is high to low voltage?
You should not do this activity during a thunderstorm.
What is swimming, showering, bathing?
The term used for providing a pathway to the ground for extra charge, so that it doesn't build up in one area and cause injury or a fire.
What is grounding?
The term for the tendency to resist the flow of electrons so as not to overload a circuit.
What is resistance?
The name for the rearrangement of electrons on a neutral object caused by a nearby charged object.
What is charging by induction?
The name for the process of transferring charge by touching or rubbing another object.
What is charging by contact?
A device that can detect electric charge.
What is an electroscope?