Electrostatics

Question 1

Define Coulomb’s Law and recognise what it describes

Answer 1

a law stating that like electric charges repel and opposite electric charges attract, with a force proportional to the product of the electric charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

it describes the force exerted by electrostatically charged objects on other electrostatically charged objects

Question 2

Define electric fields

Answer 2

Regions around an electrically charged particle or object within which a force would be exerted on other electrically charged particles or objects

Question 3

Define electric field strength

Answer 3

the intensity of an electric field at a particular location

Question 4

Define electrical potential energy

Answer 4

the capacity of electric charge carriers to do work due to their position in an electric circuit