Electrostatics
Electric charges can be either...
What are positive and negative?
V= I * R. What size resistor would produce a 3 Amp current flow with a 12 Volt battery
What is 4 ohms?
What is the name of the electrostatic "charge carrier" we made in class that is able to shock you?
What is electrophorus?
The kind of circuit in which all resistors are on one continuous unbroken path
What is a series circuit?
The area around an electrically charged object is referred to as this.
What is the Electric Field?
Opposite charges...
What is attract?
What type of current comes from wall outlets?
What is AC, or alternating current?
A typical AA battery is at 1.5 volts. Why aren't we too concerned that it will shock you and stop your heart?
What is your skin has a very high resistance to the flow of current.
What is a load?
What is something that consumes or uses electricity to operate?
This famous inventor created and perfected the first light bulb and championed DC current.
Who was Thomas Edison?
The unit of electric current...
What is ampere (amp)?
The "war of the currents" was between which two scientists?
Who were Tesla and Edison?
In lab, we sprinkled iron filings over magnets in order to observe the ____.
What are lines of magnetic force?
What is the formula for Ohm's law?
What is V=IR?
What AC stands for with respect to electricity.
What is Alternating Current?
The three methods that can be used to give objects a static electric charge
What are friction, conduction, and induction?
What is current?
What is the movement of charges such as electrons, usually through a circuit?
Magnets can attract or repel. Because of this, we can say that they can exert a ___.
What is force?
You make a simple circuit by connecting a single battery to a wire. It catches on fire. If the battery had a voltage of 1.5v and a resistance of 0.6Ω, how much current was going through the battery?
What is 2.5 amps?
He designed the first AC motor, better light bulbs than Edison's, and a method to transmit electricity without the use of wires, but despite the film The Prestige, he didn't invent a cloning machine.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
What causes lightning?
What is static electricity?
What is the difference between conductors and insulators?
What is conductors allow flow, insulators block flow?
Draw the lines of magnetic force between two magnets that are attracting.
What is OOO==OOO?
These kinds of circuits can be very frustrating around the holidays when working with decorative lights.
What is series circuit (when searching for one blown bulb)?
Draw the circuit diagram symbol for a battery.
What is...?