electricity Flashcards

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Conductor

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Medium that allows electric charge to flow easily through it

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Insulator

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Medium that does now allow electric charge to flow easily through it

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Coulombs law

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Force of attraction or repulsion between two point charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

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Electric Field

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Any region of space where a static electric charge experiences a force other than gravity. Caused by other static charges in the vicinity

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Electric field strength

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Force that a 1 coulomb charge would experience at a point in an electric field

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Fundamental freq of string experiment apparatus (7)

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Tuning forks of known frequency, sonometer, meter stick, weights, bridges, electronic balance, paper rider

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Potential difference

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Work required to move a 1 Coulomb charge from one point to another

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Electromotive Force

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Similar to voltage but created by induction

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Current

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Flow of charge through a conductor

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Resistance

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Ratio of p.d across an object to the current flowing through it

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Ampere

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Coulomb per second

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Size of an electric current

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Amount of charge passing through any part of the conductor per second

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