Electrostatic Forces

What charge is the electron?

• Logan-charged

• negative

• positive

• no charge (neutral)

Insulators are different than conductors in that insulators ____.

• do not contain electrons or protons 

•  do not contain any charge

• have a weaker affinity for electrons 

• do not allow charge to freely move 

What charge is the proton?

• positive

• no charge (neutral)

• negative

• Senaida-charged

The Electric Force is strongest when charges are...

• close together

• far apart

• the electric force is constant everywhere

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A positively charged object would be expected to attract

a negatively charged object.

• True

• False

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If two objects with static charge are attracted, what do you know about them?

• They are both positively charged.

• They are both negatively charged.

• One is positively charged and one is negatively charged, but you won't be able to tell which is which.

• One is positively charged and one is negatively charged, and you can tell which is which by looking at them.

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If the balloon has a negative charge, the hair must have what charge?

• negative

• positive

• neutral

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The girl's hair and the comb are attracting  one another.  The hair and the comb have

• opposite charges

• like charges

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State how an object can be neutral.

• The object contains more protons than electrons

• The object is not made of electricity

• The object contains the same number of protons and electrons

• The object contains no electrons

Two positively charged objects would be expected to attract

each other.

• True

• False

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