Concepts & Vocab
Coulomb's Law
Charging
Electric Fields
Electric Potential
100

x6 Points 

Which subatomic particles hold charge? 

100

x3 Steal. Steal 300 points from another team.

A object has 15 protons and 20 electrons. What is the charge of the object? 

100

Daily Double! Everybody make a wager!

What happens when you rub rabbit fur (low electron affinity) on a balloon (high electron affinity)? 
100

BOMB x4! Answer correctly or lose 400 points.

What is the electric field 4 m away from a 18 μC object.

100

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A 3 C charge moves through a potential difference and gains 6 J of energy. What was the potential difference (ΔV)? 

200

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Which subatomic particle is the charge carrier? What does this mean? 

200

Reverse! Switch directions after this questions.

An object has a charge of 3 μC. How many extra protons/electrons does it have? 

200

Daily Double! 

Everybody make a wager

Draw a picture showing an object being charged by induction. 

200

Pass Go.

Earn 200 points, no answer required.

200

Reverse! Switch directions after this questions.

An electron has a speed of 3 x 106 m/s. What is the kinetic energy of the electron? 

300

SKIP. The next team up gets to answer first.

What is the difference between a conductor and an insulator? 

300

x2 Points. 

What is the force between a 4μC charge and a 8 nC charge that are separated by 3 m? 

300

x2 Steal. Steal 600 points from another team. 

A positively charged balloon is brought near a neutral conducting sphere. The sphere is then touched. 

What is the resulting charge of the sphere? 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fobyg8MSY73wFPMrb6Kou2dhKf0S4EWu/view?usp=sharing

300

x2 Reverse! Switch directions after this question. This question is worth 600. 

A 1 nC charge is 1 m away from a 40 μC charge. What is the force acting on the 1 nC charge and the electric field at that location?

300

BOMB x2! Answer correctly or lose 600 points!

A single electron moves through a potential difference of 5,000 V. What is the change in kinetic energy of the electron? 

400

BOMB! Answer correctly or lose 400 points.

What is electron affinity? What list ranks the electron affinity of common materials? 

400

SKIP. The next team up gets to answer first.

What is the distance between two 4 μC charges that have a force of 1.5 N between them? 

400

Reverse. The direction of play is reversed after this question. 

A negatively charged balloon is brought near three neutral aluminum cans. 

What is the charge on Can A and Can C when Can B is removed. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u5RIrlDGGJ9M0UgJZyRZQZ8kEIqX1f-O/view?usp=sharing


400

SKIP! The next team up gets to answer first. 

An object with a mass of 4 kg and a charge of 0.25 C is placed into a 40 N/C uniform electric field . What is the net force and acceleration of the object? 

400

Steal. Steal 400 points from another team. 

An object has a mass of 2 kg and a charge of 10 μC. The object speeds up from 1 m/s to 5 m/s due to traveling through a potential difference (ΔV).

What is the potential difference?

500

Duel. Each team nominates one writer. All teams wager 200 points. The first person to write a fully correct answer claims the points.

Describe the difference between an electric field and an electric potential difference

500

Survivor. A randomly selected person at each table is on the chopping block, and must answer the question for their team to stay on it.

A 5e molecule is 5 x 10^-7 m away from another molecule. The force between the two molecules is 4.1 x 10^14 N. What is the charge of the second molecule? 
500

Duel. Each team nominates one writer. All teams wager 100 points. The first person to write a fully correct answer claims the points.

Define and explain the three methods of charging. 

500

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Find the net electric field acting on the 1 nC test charge in the image. 


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tyEhZxQKo5SAS9Jbleudw6BWgeeTl1r6/view?usp=sharing

500

Skip. The next team up gets to answer this question first. 

A 19 μC charge has a mass of 0.1 kg and is initially at rest when it travels through a potential difference of 10 Volts. 

What is the speed of this mass after it moves through this potential difference?