4.1 Electric Fields Intro

Question 1

What is an Electric Field?

Answer 1

A region in which charged particles experience a non-contact force. An electric field is produced by any charged object.

Question 2

What is the force that acts on a charged object in an electric field?

Answer 2

Electric or

Electrostatic Force

Question 3

What happens to oppositely charged objects?

Answer 3

They attract

Question 4

What happens to the same charged objects?

Answer 4

They repel

Question 5

How to draw an electric field of a positive charge?

Answer 5

A proton in the middle with lines perpendicular to its surface that get separate more as they get further from the centre. The arrow point away from proton.

Question 6

How to draw an electric field of a negative charge?

Answer 6

An electron in the middle with lines perpendicular to surface that get more separate as they get further from the centre. The arrows point towards the electron.

Question 7

What is the mass of proton?

Answer 7

1.7x10^-27kg

Question 8

What is the charge of a proton?

Answer 8

1.6x10^-19C

Question 9

What is the charge of an electron?

Answer 9

-1.6x10^-19C

Question 10

What is the mass of an electron?

Answer 10

9.11x10^-31