Glossary for Electric Charge and Electric Field
This text highlights key terms important for the study of static electricity & charge: conservation of charge; conductors & insulators; conductors & 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
- glossary
- conductor
- Coulomb force
- Coulomb interaction
- Coulomb's law
- dipole
- electric charge
- electric field
- electric field lines
- electromagnetic force
- electron
- electrostatic equilibrium
- electrostatic force
- electrostatic precipitators
- electrostatic repulsion
- electrostatics
- Faraday cage
- field
- free charge
- free electron
- grounded
- induction
- ink-jet printer
- insulator
- ionosphere
- laser printer
- law of conservation of charge
- photoconductor
- point charge
- polar molecule
- polarization
- polarized
- proton
- screening
- static electricity
- test charge
- Van de Graadd generator
- vector
- vector addition
- xenography