The charging process by which only touching an object is needed to transfer a charge.
What is conduction?
100
This is the place Lightning most commonly gets discharged.
What is the ground?
100
Electrostatic Force and Charge are ___________ proportional.
What is directly (proportional)?
100
Fe stands for _____________ _____.
What electrostatic force?
200
*Electric Potential
What is V = PEe / q
*remember Electric Potential is Voltage!
200
The process in which there must be a touch or a spark from the object doing the charging to the object being charged.
What is charge by conduction?
200
A device used to attract atmospheric charge on tall structures and direct it safely into the ground.
What is a lightning rod?
200
He was the first to discover the law.
Who is Henry Cavendish?
200
Charge is a fundamental property that makes charged particles feel this.
What is the electric force?
300
Coulombs Law
What is Fe = k q1 q2 / d^2
300
The process by which the object responsible for electrifying does not transfer any charge to the object being electrified.
What is charge by induction?
300
Electrostatic Force and Distance are ___________ proportional.
What is inversely (proportional)?
300
Coulomb's Law is very similar in form to this law.
What is Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation?
300
PEe represents _________ _________ ___________.
What is electric potential energy?
400
k
what is 9 x 10^9 N-m^2 / C^2
400
Lightning occurs as a result of this type of charging
What is induction?
400
The charge in the ground directly under a negatively electrified storm cloud.
What is positive charge?
400
Of the three types of particles that make up an atom, this one does NOT feel the electric force.
What is the neutron?
400
There are 6.25 x 10^18 electrons in one __________ of charge.
What is a Coulomb?
500
1. Fe
2. q
3. V
4. C
5. d
6. k
What is:
1. electrostatic force
2. charge
3. voltage
4. coulombs
5. distance
6. electrostatic constant
500
With a Van de Graaff, a person walking by can experience a charge through induction because the _________ _________ spreads throughout the immediate area around the dome.
What is the electric field?
500
This person was the first to discover that lightning and electricity in the laboratory were the same physical phenomenon.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
Although atoms are usually neutral, all atoms contain these three particles _____, _____, & _____...Of which, _______ and ______ carry an electrostatic charge.
What are protons, electrons, & neutrons....protons and electrons?
500
In a field diagram, the strength of the electric field is given by this.