Chapter Objectives:

• Describe electrical forces between objects.
• Explain how an object becomes (a) positively charged and (b) negatively charged.
• Describe Coulomb's law.
• Distinguish between a conductor and an insulator.
• Describe how an insulator can be charged by friction and by contact.
• Describe how a conductor can be charged without contact.
• Describe how an insulator can be charged by charge polarization.
  

Chapter Terms:

• electricity
• electrostatics
• conservation of charge
• coulomb's law
• couloumb
• conductor
• insulator
• electrically polarized
• electric field
• electrid potential energy
• electric potential
• capacitor

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Chapter Formulas:

Voltage = electric potential energy/amount of charge

Chapter Outline Framework:

• Electrical Forces
• Electric Charges
• Conservation of charge
• Coulomg's Law
• Conductors and Insulators
  • Semiconductors
  • Superconductors
• Charging
  • Charging by Friction and Contact
  • Charging by Induction
• Charge Polarization
• Electric Field
  • Electric Shielding
• Electric Potential
• Electric Energy Source
• Van de Graaff Generator

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