Static Electricity
Atoms contain these, which can be positive or negative.
What are charges.
Clothing sticking together after being taken out of a dryer.
What is an example of charging by friction?
Particles that make up all matter.
Atoms
Removal of charges from an object
What is discharge?
This is what happens to an object when an unbalanced force is applied in the direction of its motion.
The build up of charged particles.
What is static electricity?
An object generates this charge if it is rubbed with a piece of cloth that has a weaker hold on its electrons.
What is a negative charge?
What will make the most static electricity, rabbit fur or cotton?
Rabbit fur
This happens to an object it becomes neutral.
What is grounding?
What makes each element unique on the Periodic Table?
Number Protons
A positive charge will attract this?
What is a negative charge?
Electrical energy is based on this ability of atoms.
What is the ability to gain or lose electrons?
Two oppositely charged objects will do this.
What is attactl?
A metal that is attached to the highest point of a building.
What is a lightening rod?
This phase change happens when molecules slow down and become a solid.
What is freezing?
Two oppositely charged particles will do this.
What is attract?
The three ways that static electricity can be generated?
Charging by friction, contact, induction
What will build up the most charge, rabbit fur on a metal rod or rabbit fur on a glass rod?
What is rabbit fur on the glass rod?
A way of charging by rubbing different objects.
What is friction?
Newton's 2nd Law of Motion?
Force = mass x acceleration
What is a non-neutral atom called?
Ion
When a charged balloon is brought near a neutral wall it sticks because the this method.
What is charging by induction?
What is the most dangerous natural type of static electricity?
Lightning
The presence of a charged object near a neutral conductor will force electrons within the conductor to move.
What is induction?
Substances that do not allow electrons to move freely through them are...
What are insulators?