Electricity And Magnetism Flashcards

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…. Always move in a direction that will increase their potential

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Electrons

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Materials that contain many electrons inside theme

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Conductors

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Charges in coulomb law are assumed to be

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Point charges

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Force per unit charge experienced by a small positive test charge

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Electric field

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The electric field inside any conducting body is … Because of situations in which charge does not move

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Zero

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…. Charge electric field lines are directed into the charge

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Negative

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An … Has constant magnitude and direction

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Uniform

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An electric charge creates an electric field and an …. Around it

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Electric potential

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The … At a point is the work per unit charge that must be done to bring the positive test charge from away to the point of interest

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Potential

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Electric field between parallel lines can be defined as

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E=V/d, where V is potential difference and d is the separation

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The work done when a charge equal to 1e is taken across a potential difference of 1 volt

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Electron volt

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A moving charge creates an

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Electric current

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The presence of an electric field inside a conductor forces electrons to accelerate in a direction opposite to the field (why?) and this orderly motion of the electrons in the same direction is what makes electric current

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The charge of the electron is negative

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… Lose energy constantly, which…. Pick about. These will vibrate about their equilibrium positions, which will increase the temperature of the material

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Electrons / atoms of the material

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An electric current is produced when a wire is heated so that it begins to emit electrons

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Thermionic emission

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Potential difference across its ends, divided by the current flowing through it

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Electric resistance

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When the temperature of a metallic conductor is kept constant, the current through it is proportional to the potential difference across it

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Ohm’s law

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The… Of a wire is proportional to its length L and inversely proportional to the cross sectional area A

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Resistance

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If a current flows through a resistor, then there must be a potential difference across the ends of that resistor. A resistor is thus said to

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Drop the potential

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In a battery, work must be done on the electrons to push them from the positive to the negative terminal. The ratio of work done by non electrical forces to a quantity of charge q that moves from one terminal to the other is the

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Emf of the battery

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An … Measures the current in the resistor connected in series to it

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Ammeter

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Measures the potential difference across a resistor it is connected parallel to

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Voltmeter

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The fact that the magnetic force on a charge is always normal to the velocity means that the path of a charge in a magnetic field must be

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Circular or helical

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The magnitude of the magnetic field B created by a current in a wire varies linearly with the current in the wire and inversely with the perpendicular distance from the wire

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Orsted

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The constant of proportionality between magnitude of magnetic field, current and distance is

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Magnetic permeability of vacuum

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Forces are attractive in

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Parallel currents

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Forces are repulsive in

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Antiparallel currents

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Magnetic forces must be equal in magnitude even though the magnetic fields are different

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Newton 3