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Terminology
Triboelectric Series
Good, Fair or Insulator?
Electrostatics
Electrically Charged Particles
100
Occurs when objects rub against each other
What is friction?
100
Glass and silk
What is glass will become +, silk will become -
100
copper
What is good?
100
largest example of static electricity
What is lightning?
100
have a positive electric charge
What are protons?
200
the ability of materials to allow electrons to mover freely in them
What is conductivity?
200
cotton and nylon
What is cotton will become - and nylon will become +
200
rubber
What is an insulator?
200
name for the generator that creates charge through friction between the roller and the belt and transfers that charge to a metal sphere
What is a Van de Graaf generator?
200
have no charge
What are neutrons?
300
instrument that detects static electric charges
What is an electroscope?
300
ebonite and fur
What is ebonite will become -, fur will become +
300
carbon
What is fair?
300
this is the process of connecting a charged object to the Earth's surface
What is grounding?
300
if there are 12 protons in the nucleus, there are this many electrons in the energy levels surroudning the nucleus
What is 12?
400
the movement of electrons within an object caused by a nearby charged object
What is induction?
400
teflon and human hand
What is teflon will become negative, human hand will become +
400
mercury
What is good?
400
uses static electric charges to remove particulates from gases in buildings or industrial sites
What is an electrostatic precipitator?
400
if an atom has gained or lost on or more electrons it is referred to as this
What is and ion?
500
the tendency of a substance to hold on to electrons
What is electron affinity?
500
steel and amber
What is steel will become +, amber will become -
500
rust
What is an insulator?
500
airplanes and automobiles can build up charges through friction between this.
What is air and the outer surface of the car or plane?
500
the word static comes from the greek work 'statikos' which means this
What is stationary?