Fundamentals
Charging
Lines
Forces
Reference Tables
100

Like charges (++ or --) do this.

What is repel?

100

Charging by this occurs with the physical transfer of charge through contact. 

What is conduction?

100

The region around any charged object where another charge would experience a force.

What is an electric field?

100

This LAW describes the relationship between the force charged experienced at a given distance from each other.

What is Coulomb’s law?

100

The page number of the Electricity Equations

What is page 4?

200

The subatomic particle that normally moves between objects when charging occurs.

What is an electron?

200

Charging by rubbing two objects together (a subcategory of conduction)

What is friction?

200

The imaginary lines that show electric field direction and relative strength (density).

What are electric field lines? 

200

The equation given by Coulomb's law.

What is  F_e=k\frac{q_1q_2}{r^2} ?

200

8.99*10^9 \ \frac{N m^2}{C^2}

What is the electrostatic constant k?

300

The rule stating that the total charge in a closed, isolated system remains constant.

What is (the law of) conservation of charge?

300

Charging without contact, in which the charged object and the object being charged end up with opposite charges. (Requires grounding)

What is induction?

300

Rule: field lines go out of ____ charges and go into ____ charges.

What are positive and negative?

300

If the distance between two charges is cut in third,  the electric force becomes ____ times as (small/large).

 r_1=r \rightarrow r_2=1/3 r 

What is 9 times larger?

300

An elementary charge e in coulombs, C. 

What is  1.6*10^{-19} \ C ?

400

The category of material where charges cannot move freely throughout it.  

What is an insulator?

400

The name of scenario in an insulator, where charges can shift slightly within molecules, creating a surface charge.

What is polarization?

400

The electric field direction is the direction of force on this sign of charge.

What is a positive charge?

400

Newton’s 3rd law in electrostatics: the force q₁ exerts on q₂ is ____ in magnitude and ____ in direction to the force q₂ exerts on q₁.

What is equal and opposite?

400

The number of elementary charges in 1 coulomb of charge.

What is  6.25*10^{18} \ e ?

500

The idea proven by Millikan: charges come only in whole-number multiples of e .

What is charge quantization? (Cannot be a fraction of e)

500

The process of connecting to Earth so that excess charge can flow away, leaving an object neutral.

What is grounding?

500

Between two large, oppositely charged parallel plates (close compared to their area), the field is approximately ____.

What is uniform (constant in magnitude and direction)? 

500

Electric field strength Equation:______    

What is  \vec{E}=\vec{F_e}/q?

500

1 eV = ___ 

What is  1.60×10^{−19} \ J  ?

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