Electric Charges
Coulomb's Law
Circuits
Vocab
Math
100

The subatomic particle that has a negative charge

What is an electron?

100

Unit for Coulomb's Law electrostatic force

What is Newtons (N)?

100

The two types of circuits

What are series and parallel?

100

Difference between conductors and insulators

What is conductors allows charges to move freely and insulators do not allow charges to move freely?

100

What is the voltage of a circuit with a current of 3 A and a resistance of 15 ohms?

What is 45 volts?

200

How does an object become charged?

What is it picks up or loses electrons?

200

Definition of Coulomb's Law

What is a measure of the electrostatic attraction between two objects with charges?

200

What is Ohm's Law?

What is V = I * R?

200

Examples of insulators

Rubber, glass, dry wood, diamonds, oil, etc

200

Parallel circuit with resistors of 5 ohms, 20 ohms, and 10 ohms. What is the total resistance?

What is 2.86 ohms?

300

What happens when an atom has more protons than electrons?

What is a positive charge?

300

Coulomb's Constant

What is 8.99 x 109 Nm2/C2?

300

In a series circuit, current is:

What is always equal?

300

What happens when a charge is introduced to a system (goes from positive to negative)?

What is an electric field?

300

Electrostatic force of two objects 0.5 m apart with one charge of -4e-6 C and another of 6e-6 C

What is -0.863 N?

400

Charges of electron and proton

What is -1.6 * 10-19 (electron) and 1.6 * 10-19 (proton)?

400
Electrostatic force is inversely proportional to

What is the squared distance between objects?

400

Difference between series and parallel circuits

What is series has resistors one after the other and parallel has resistors in independent branches?

400
Electric current definition

What is the rate at which charge flows through a  conductor?

400

Electrostatic force of two objects 4 cm apart equals 60 N. What is the charge of object 2 when the charge of object 1 is 4.3 * 10^-6 C?

What is 2.48 * 10^-6 C?

500

The Law of Conservation of Charge states:

What is the amount of subatomic particles in a system must stay constant

500

How to tell if two objects attract or repel

What is negative electrostatic force means attraction and positive electrostatic force means repulsion?

500

The total resistance of a parallel circuit can be found with the equation:

 1/Rtotal = 1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3...

500

Induction definition

What is the process of charging a conductor by bringing another charged object near it (which grounds the conductor)?

500

Parallel circuit with 3 resistors (30 ohms, 20 ohms, 10 ohms) and total current of 10 A: solve for all voltages, current at each resistors, and total resistance (hint: draw the circuit).

Vtotal = V1 = V2 = V3 = 54.55 v

I1 = 1.82 A, I2 = 2.73 A, I3 = 5.45 A

Rtotal = 5.45 ohms