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Electric Charge and Force
Chapter Electric Charge and Force
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Bill Nye clip on electricty
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Electricity! What is it? Telephone – microphone changes sound waves into electric currents
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Electricity Light shinning into a room
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Electricity Step on a pin – electrical pulses to and from the brain
Electric fence video – Youtube Brainiac
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Electric Charge Electric Charge – an electrical property of matter that creates electric and magnetic forces and interactions
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Positive and Negative Charge
Protons: + Neutrons: 0 Electrons: -
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Transferring Charge Walking on the carpet - electrons transferred from the carpet to your shoes Shoes - excess of electrons; become negatively charged Carpet - lost electrons; has an excess of positive charge
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Charge The difference in the number of protons and electrons determines the charge
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Positive Charge Fewer electrons than protons
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Negative Charge Fewer protons than electrons
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SI Unit The SI unit for an electric charge is a coulomb or C.
Proton 1.6 x 10-19C Electron -1.6 x 10-19C
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Conductors and Insulators
Transfer of electrons Material in which electrons are able to move easily – conductor Metals
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Insulators Material in which electrons are not able to move easily – insulator Plastics
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Transfer of Electrons Objects are charged by a transfer of electrons
Protons and neutrons are fixed
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Static Electricity Accumulation of excess electric charge on an object (depends on material) - static electricity Charging by friction
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Static Electricity
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Lightning Large static discharge
Static discharge between cloud and ground
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Thunder Lightning - generates powerful sound waves
Heat - causes air to expand rapidly, producing sound waves
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Lightning Facts com/info/interesting- facts-about-lightning/
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Charged by Contact When a negative charged object touches a neutral object Electrons will transfer Transfer give a negative charge
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Charges move within uncharged objects
Negative charged object touches a neutral object Electrons move to the back of the object Induced charge
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Conservation of Charge
Law of Conservation of Charge - charge can be transferred from object to object, but it cannot be created or destroyed
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Polarization Comb and paper
Electrons in paper cannot move freely – insulator Charged comb moves molecules in paper – induces charge One side is slightly more positive or negative
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Opposite charges attract
Charges Exert Forces Unlike charges attract Like charges repel Depends on distance apart Opposite charges attract Like charges repel
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Electric Fields Electric Field - surrounds every electric charge
Exerts the force that causes other electric charges to be attracted or repelled
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Electric Fields Any charge that is placed in an electric field will be pushed or pulled by the field
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Electric Force Electric Force – force of attraction or repulsion between objects due to charge
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