Positive vs. Negative
what is the smallest unit of matter?
atom
what causes static electricity?
build up of electric charge on the surface
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 static electricity become active?
Static electricity becomes active when it comes in contact with the electrical charges from surrounding objects.
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.
Charged objects attract what kind of objects?
Neutral objects.
in an atom what particles are found in the nucleus?
protons and neutrons
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.
The machine used by teacher to show static electricity.
What is the Van de Graaff generator?
What is a polarized charge
separation of electric charge witin a molecule or object resulting in a positive end and a negative end
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 "non-contact" force.