Electric Force

What happens when two objects with the same type of charge are brought close to each other?

• They will repel each other

• They will merge into one object

• They will explode

• They will attract each other

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What is an electric field?

• The path that electricity follows through a circuit

• A type of battery used to store electricity

• A force field that surrounds electrically charged particles and exerts force on other charged particles within the field.

• A type of wire used to conduct electricity

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What happens when you rub a positive charge (hair) with a negative charge (balloon)?

• The balloon will repel from the hair

• The hair will rise towards the balloon

• The hair's charges will electrocute the person

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How does a Van de Graaff generator accumulate electric charge?

• Friction and transfer of electrons

• By absorbing light energy

• By conducting heat energy

• By emitting protons

What are the two types of electric charges?

• Positive and negative

• North and south

• Left and right

• Up and down

A balloon has a negative charge. A glass rod has a positive charge. What will happen when the rod is brought near the balloon?

• the balloon will be attracted to the rod

• the balloon will remain in place

• the balloon will be repelled by the rod

• the balloon will spin in circles

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What is the charge of the electron

• positive

• no charge

• negative

• neutral

What types of charges attract?

• Positive and Positive

• Positive and Neutral

• Negative and Neutral

• Positive and Negative

Electric charges that are alike _______ each other.

• Attract

• Repel

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Electric charges that are different _______ each other.

• Attract

• Repel

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