Force and Field
Current and Resistance
Circuits
Magnetism
Potpourri
100
This causes electrical forces between objects.
What are electric charges?
100
The flow of charge in a circuit.
What is electric current?
100
Resistances are added together directly in this type of circuit.
What is a series circuit?
100
Consisting of a north and south magnetic pole in an object.
What is a magnetic dipole?
100
This sitcom character on 'Parks and Recreation' repeatedly discussed the nature of guns, meat, hunting, and other 'manly pursuits.'
Who is Ron Swanson?
200
A diagram of the force felt by a positive test charge by other surrounding charges.
What is an electric field?
200
The relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in an electrical circuit.
What is Ohm's Law? (V = IR)
200
Currents are added together directly in this type of circuit.
What is a parallel circuit?
200
Placing a magnetic object inside a very strong magnetic field for a period of time can create this
What is a permanent magnet?
200
The current governor of Pennsylvania.
Who is Tom Corbett?
300
This is where the charge is located on a statically charged object.
Where is on the outside?
300
Produced by a battery vs. produced by a generator.
What is the difference between direct and alternating current?
300
Voltages are added together directly in this type of circuit.
What is a series circuit?
300
In a straight wire, this is the shape of the magnetic field that surrounds the wire when a current passes through it.
What is circular? (orbiting the wire)
300
The last major sports team (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB) to win 4 consecutive championships.
Who are the New York Islanders?
400
The potential energy stored per unit charge at the time a charge leaves a battery.
What is electric potential (or voltage)?
400
Described as the ability of a substance to dissipate electrical voltage in a circuit.
What is resistance?
400
Removal of an resistor in this type of circuit does NOT break the circuit.
What is a parallel circuit?
400
By doing this with the wires, you can increase the strength of the magnetic field generated by the wire when a current passes through.
What is coil the wire?
400
Jay-Z recently moved the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn. This is their primary color scheme as the Brooklyn Nets.
What is black and white?
500
The location of the energy that does electrical work on an object.
Where is in the electric field?
500
The metric unit that describes the same physical concept as a kilowatt-hour.
What is a joule?
500
Across both series and parallel circuits, this is the only physics term that the sum of this term across all resistors equals the total of this term.
What is electric power?
500
A device that can step up or step down voltage generated by a power plant to get it to your house.
What is a transformer?
500
This rap group won an Oscar in 2005 for the film "Hustle & Flow"
Who are Three 6 Mafia? (and they have the same number of Oscar awards as Martin Scorsese)
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