Ways of Charging (Electrostatic)

What do you call the process of charging a conductor by bringing it near another charged object?

• induction
• polarization
• neutralization
• conduction

Two like charges

•  neutralize each other.
• repel each other. 
• must be neutrons. 
• attract each other.

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Where do electrons go when you rub a balloon on your hair?

• Onto the balloon
• Into your hair
• Nowhere

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After you rub a balloon on your hair, what charge does the balloon have?

• Positive
• Negative
• Neutral

After you rub a balloon on your hair, what charge does your hair have?

• Positive
• Negative
• Neutral

When you charge a balloon by rubbing it on your hair this is an example of what method of charging?

• Friction
• Conduction
• Grounding
• Induction

When an object is charged by induction, electrons flow from the ground onto the object, or from the object onto the ground.

• true
• false

___ are good conductors because they have loose electrons.

• copper
• aluminum 
• metals
• all of the above

Materials through which electrons move easily__.

• insulator
• conductor

Transferring a charge without touching is ___

• conduction
• induction
• grounding 
• Newtons 3rd law

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