Positive vs. Negative
What is the charge of protons.
They're a positive charge.
What is static electricity?
Charged particles are transferred from one body to another.
How is static electricity created?
Rubbing one object against another object.
Electricity is the movement of ___.
The movement of electrons.
The continuous movement of electrons.
What is current electricity?
Protons and Electrons ____ each other.
What is attract?
What is static discharge?
The loss of static electricity as electric charges move off an object.
One example of static electricity.
What is lightning.
What charged particles are able to transfer from surface to surface?
What are electrons?
How does amount of charge affect strength of electric field?
The greater the charge the greater the electric field strength.
What is the charge of electrons.
They're a negative charge.
What is electric field?
The field around charged particles that exerts force on other charged particles.
One cause of static electricity.
What is friction?
Which part of atoms cause static electricity?
Electrons cause static electricity.
What are the 3 ways that charged objects interact?
charged objects attract to neutral objects, opposites attract and like repel
All matter is made of ____.
What are atoms?
Electricity can flow through what?
What are conductors?
Static electricity stays in one place. True or False?
True.
What happens to an atom if it gains an electron?
Atoms that gain electrons become negative.
How does distance affect strength of electric field?
The greater the distance the weaker the field's strength.
What is the charge of static electricity?
Electricity does not flow through what?
What are insulators?
The loss of static electricity.
What is static discharge?
What are the three types of static generation.
Contact, detachment, and frictional static build-up.
Static electricity produces what type of force?
Static electricity produces a force that can push or pull without touching