Chapter 5 - Electrostatics Flashcards
1
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Law of Conservation of charge
A
Charge cannot be created / destroyed, only transferred.
2
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Coulomb’s Law
A
The force of attraction/ repulsion between charges are directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
3
Q
Electrical Field
A
Area around a charge in which another charge will experience an electrostatic force.
4
Q
Electrical field lines
A
An imaginary line that indicated the direction & strength along which a positive test charge will move if placed at a specific pt. in the electrical field.
5
Q
Electric field strength (at a pt. in an elec. field)
A
The force per positive unit charge at that point.
