Electric Field Review

A device used to store charge in a circuit is called a

• Electric Field

• Electric Potential

• Capacitor

• Volt

A force field that fills the space around every electric charge or group of charges. (Measured by force per charge N/Coulomb)

• Electric Field

• Electric Potential

• Capacitor

• Volt

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

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Energy a charge has due to its location in an electric field

• Electric Field

• Electric Potential

• Capacitor

• Volt

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NGSS.HS-PS3-2

SI Unit of electric potential.

• Electric Field

• Electric Potential

• Voltage

• Volt

One __________ is the electric potential difference across which one coulomb of charge gains or loses one Joule of energy.

• Electric Field

• Electric Potential

• Voltage

• Volt

Electric potential; measured in volts.

• Electric Field

• Electric Potential

• Voltage

• Volt

Electric field lines: How do their directions compare with the direction of the force that acts on a positive test charge in the same region?

• Towards positive, away from negative

• Towards negative, away from positive

• Towards both positive and negative

• Away from both positive and negative

Electric fields can be shielded.

• True

• False

What happens to the electric field inside a conductor when free charges arrange themselves on its surface?

• Field is positively Charged

• Field is negatively charged

• Field cancels to zero

• Field is mowed.

Electric fields can be described by using field lines (or lines of force). In a field lines representation of an electric field, the field is weaker where the lines are______.

• closer together.

• shorter.

• Longer

• farther apart.