The Rules
These are the two fundamental rules at the base of all electrical phenomena.
What is opposite charges attract and like charges repel?
The charging process by which the two objects being touched get charged.
What is charging by conduction?
This person was the first to discover that lightning and electricity in the laboratory were the same phenomenon.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
9 x 109 Nm2/C2
What is the value of Coulomb's constant?
this is a positron
What is positive charge and negligible mass?
Objects that have as many protons as electrons.
What are neutral objects?
The process in which there must be a touch or a spark from the object being rubbed with another object.
What is charge by friction?
A device used to attract atmospheric charge and direct it safely into the ground.
What is a lightning rod?
If the force increases by 9 and the charges did not increase in magnitude, this happens.
What is distance decreased by 3?
This converges on a negative charge
What is the electric field lines?
The only charge that can move in a solid material.
What are electrons?
The process by which the object responsible for electrifying does not transfer any charge to the object being electrified.
What is charge by induction?
This is keraunophobia
What is a fear of lightning?
Coulomb's Law is very similar in form to this law by Newton.
What is Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation?
this is electrical Energy per Coulomb
What is the Electric potential?
This is used to detect the presence of electric charges
What is an electroscope?
This happens in the molecules of dust to explain why dust so readily sticks to television tubes. It also happens to your electroscope in the presence of a charged object.
What is charge polarization?
The charge in the ground directly under a negatively electrified storm cloud.
What is positive charge?
He was the first to experimentally verify the law.
Who is Henry Cavendish?
Electric field lines radiate out of this charge.
What is a positive charge?
The list of materials that donate or accept electrons
The triboelectric series
In a Van de Graaff, this piece transfers the electrons from the belt to the dome.
What is the charging comb?
Lightning has two types
What are positive and negative lightning?
Although atoms are usually neutral, an atom in this form will feel the electric force.
What is an ion?
this is the product of charge, electrical field and displacement.
What is the electrical energy?