Chapter 15

Question 1

a partical with equal amounts of positive charge and negitive charge

Answer 1

electrically neutral

Question 2

the condition of having an unbalaned amount of positive charge or negitive charge

Answer 2

electrically charged

Question 3

the process of an unbalanced electric charge becoming balanced

Answer 3

electric discharge

Question 4

a material in which electric charges cannot easily move

Answer 4

electric insulator

Answer 5

electric conductor

Question 6

the force that two electrically charged objects apply to each other

Answer 6

electric force

Question 7

the invisible region around a charged object where an electrical force is applied

Answer 7

electric field

Question 8

the movement of electrically charged particles

Answer 8

electric current

Question 9

a closed or complete path in which an electrical current flows

Answer 9

electric circuit

Question 10

a measure of how difficult it is for an electrical current to flow in a material

Answer 10

electric resistance

Question 11

a machine that transforms machanical energy into electrical energy

Answer 11

generator

Question 12

the amount of energy used to move one coulomb of elctrons through an electrical circuit

Answer 12

voltage

Question 13

a magnet created by wrapping a current carrying wire around a ferromagnetic core

Answer 13

electromagnet

Question 14

an object that attracts iron

Answer 14

magnet

Question 15

the force that a magnet applies to another magnet

Answer 15

magnetic force

Question 16

any material that a magnet attracts

Answer 16

magnetic material

Question 17

region in a magnetic material in which the magnetic fields of the atoms all point in the same direction

Answer 17

magnetic domain