Physics Chapter 17 Reading
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1. How does an object become positively charged?
2. How does an object become negatively charged?
3. What does electric charge is always conserved mean?
4. Why is charged said to be quantized?
5. What is the difference between an insulator and a conductor?
6. What is the base unit for measuring charge?
7. How does charging by conduction occur? What charge will result if a positively charged object
conducts a charge to a non-charged object? What about a negatively charged object conducting
a charge to a non-charged object?
8. How does charging by induction occur? What charge will result if a positively charged object
induces a charge to a non-charged object? What about a negatively charged object inducing a
charge to a non-charged object? What is polarization?
9. What is Coulomb’s Law?
10. What is Coulomb’s constant and what are its units?
11. What is the superposition principle and what is it useful for?
12. What is an electric field? What are its units?
13. What is the base equation for electric field? What is the electric field equation for a point
charge?
14. What are electric field lines and what are the two ways that electric field in any region of space
are related?
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15. What are the three rules for drawing electric field lines? What is the sign of the test charge that
is “placed” in the electric field?
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16. What is an electrostatic equilibrium?
17. List the six characteristics of metal conductors that are in electrostatic equilibrium.
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18. Describe the basics about how a Van der Graaff’s generator works.