Transferring Electrons
The process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance when there is a difference of temperature or of electrical potential between adjoining regions, without movement of the material.
What is conduction?
A stable subatomic particle occurring in all atomic nuclei, with a positive electric charge equal in magnitude to that of an electron, but of opposite sign.
What is a proton?
A force under the influence of which objects tend to move toward each other.
What is attraction?
A material or device that conducts or transmits heat, electricity, or sound, especially when regarded in terms of its capacity to do this.
What is a conductor?
Occurs whenever electrons within a neutral object move because of the electric field of a nearby charged object.
What is polarization?
A stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.
What is an electron?
A force under the influence of which objects tend to move away from each other.
What is repulsion?
A material whose internal electric charges do not flow freely.
What is an insulator?
Occurs when a charged object is brought near to a neutral conducting object, forcing electrons within the conductor to migrate.
What is induction?
The International System of Units unit of electric charge.
What is Coulomb?
This is exerted between any two charged objects. Objects with the same charge, both positive and both negative, will repel each other, and objects with opposite charges, one positive and one negative, will attract each other.
What is electrical force?
A material that is neither a good conductor or a good insulator but that conducts more electricity when heat, light or voltage is added.
What is a semiconductor?
Occurs when electrons transfer between two objects that are rubbed together.
What is charge by friction?
One of the basic properties of the elementary particles of matter giving rise to all electric and magnetic forces and interactions. The two kinds of charge are given negative and positive algebraic signs.
What is electric charge?
The principle that the total electric charge in an isolated system never changes.
What is conservation of charge?
Physics that deals with phenomena due to attractions or repulsions of electric charges but not dependent upon their motion.
What is electrostatics?