Electricity Vocabulary
A buildup of charges on an object, or when you rub your socks on the carpet and get shocked when you touch the doorknob
What is static electricity?
Two like charges will repel each other. Two opposite charges will do this.
What is repel?
Any material that attracts iron and materials that contain iron.
What is a magnet?
The relationship between electricity and magnetism.
What is electromagnetism?
The SI Unit of distance.
What is the meter?
The force between charged objects.
What is electric force?
Current is measured in what units?
What is amperes?
The force of attraction or repulsion of magnetic materials.
What is magnetism?
A device that transforms electrical energy to mechanical energy.
What is an electric motor?
The SI Unit of force is named after this scientist who gave us three laws of motion.
What are Newtons?
The region around a charged object where the object's electric force is exerted on other charged objects.
What is electric field?
Materials that allow charges to flow or that are good at generating heat are referred to as this.
What are conductors?
A force produced when magnetic poles interact.
What is magnetic force?
A device that transforms mechanical energy into electrical energy.
What is a generator?
The SI Unit for time.
What is the second?
The continuous flow of electrical charges through a material.
What is electric current?
There are four methods of charging an object - conduction, induction, polarization, and this.
What is friction?
The ends of a magnetic object, where the magnetic force is the strongest.
What is a magnetic pole?
A device that uses an electromagnet to detect small amounts of current.
What is a galvanometer?
The SI Unit of work.
What are joules?
A tiny particle that moves around the outside of the nucleus of an atom with a negative charge.
What is an electron?
Lighting is the result of static ___________.
What is discharge?
The region around a magnet where the magnetic force is exerted.
What is a magnetic field?
A device that increases or decreases voltage, which often consists of two separate coils of insulated wires wrapped around an iron core.
What is a transformer?
The SI Unit of power.
What are watts?