P6 - FINALS!!!

• It is the flow of electrons; the movement of electrons between atoms

  electricity
• • The positive and negative charge
  • Physical property of an object that causes it to be ATTRACTED towards or REPELLED from another charged object


  electric charge
• where can we find the electric charge?

  atom
• a kind of electricity that is produced when there is an imbalanced of electric charges

  static electricity
• it is able to produce static electricity when rubbed with a cloth

  amber
• "Electricity" comes from the GREEK word elektron which means?

  amber
• • carried out famous experiments involving flying kites during thunderstorms
  • Classified charges as EITHER POSITIVE or NEGATIVE

  Benjamin Franklin
• discovered negatively charged particles known as electrons


  JJ Thomson
• discovered positively charged particles known as protons


  Ernest Rutherford
• charges are measured in?

  coulombs (C)
• the sum of the number of electrons and protons

  net charge
• allows the movement of electric charges

  conductor
• doesn't allow the movement of electric charges

  insulator
• The METHODS OF CHARGING:

  • CONDUCTION
  • INDUCTION
  • FRICTION
• a LAW THAT STATES that the algebraic sum of all the electric charges in any closed system is CONSTANT

  Law of Conservation of Charge
• no charge is being added or removed from the system

  closed system
• formula of coulomb's law


  f= kq1q2/r^2
• The magnitude of the electric force between two point charges is _______ ________ to the product of the charges

  directly proportional
• • is said to exist in the region or space around a charged object, the source charge - it is the electric force per unit charge (N/C)

  electric field
• In electrostatic attraction, there is ____ between charges

  work
• • per unit charge (V or J/C)
  • STORED ENERGY in a CIRCUIT
  • the energy NEEDED to MOVE AN ELECTRIC CHARGE against an electric field

  electric potential energy
• it is the AMOUNT of WORK needed to move an electric charge FROM ITS REFERENCE POINT to a specific point on the electric field

  electric potential
• is required to MOVE an ELECTRIC CHARGE that contains potential energy either towards an opposite charge or against a like charge


  electric force
• refers to the total kinetic and potential energies present in a system

  law of conservation of mechanical energy
• • refers to the “rate of the flow of the electric field through a given SURFACE”
  • the property of an electric field relating to the measure of its strength

  electric flux
• a _______ charge within a region will have an outward electric flux passing through its surface.


  positve
• A _______ charge will have an inward electric flux through its surface

  negative
• The net electric flux going outward the surface of the region is _________ proportional to the magnitude of the net charge enclosed by that region.

  directly
• a law that states that the electric flux passing through a closed surface is EQUAL to the RATIO of TOTAL CHARGE enclosed by that surface to the permittivity of FREE SPACE

  Gauss's Law
• full name of Gauss?


  Karl Friedrich Gauss
• value of epsilon nought

  8.85x10^-12 C^2/Nm^2
• a device that stores or holds an electric charge

  capacitors
• the capacity to hold the charges

  capacitance
• all components are connected end-to-end; single path for current flow

  series circuit
• all components are connected ACROSS each other


  parallel circuit
• capacitors consist of ___ parallel coductors

  two
• a capacitor which contains the same amount of capacitance as the combination of capacitors in a given system

  equivalent capacitor
• rate of the flow of charges

  current
• drives electron flow


  voltage
• controls and restricts electron flow

  resistance