Connection for AP® Courses Relating to Electric Charge and Electric Field
This text provides a brief introduction to static electricity and charge: conservation of charge; conductors and insulators; conductors and electric fields in static equilibrium; Coulomb’s law; electric field: concept of a field revisited; electric field lines: multiple charges; electric forces in biology; and applications of electrostatics. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.
Topics
- polarized
- Benjamin Franklin
- charge conservation
- Coulomb force
- Coulomb interaction
- electric charge
- electric field lines
- electric field strength
- electrostatic equilibrium
- electrostatic force
- electrostatic precipitators
- electrostatic repulsion
- Faraday cage
- free charge
- free electron
- grounded
- laser printer
- photoconductor
- point charge
- polar molecule
- screening
- test charge
- Van de Graaff generator
- xerography
- electron
- conductor
- vector
- static electricity
- polarization
- ionosphere
- electrostatics
- force field
- vector addition
- proton
- induction
- electromagnetic force
- insulator
- dipole
- electric field
- Coulombs law