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1) Static electricity refers to stationary or static charges and is the study of how individual charges move into stationary positions.
2) Opposite charges attract each other, while like charges repel each other. This is known as the Golden Rule of electrostatics.
3) Conductors allow charge to pass through and insulators do not. Atoms can gain or lose electrons, becoming positively or negatively charged. Charging occurs through friction, which causes materials like plastic to gain or lose electrons.
1) Static electricity refers to stationary or static charges and is the study of how individual charges move into stationary positions.
2) Opposite charges attract each other, while like charges repel each other. This is known as the Golden Rule of electrostatics.
3) Conductors allow charge to pass through and insulators do not. Atoms can gain or lose electrons, becoming positively or negatively charged. Charging occurs through friction, which causes materials like plastic to gain or lose electrons.
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1) Static electricity refers to stationary or static charges and is the study of how individual charges move into stationary positions.
2) Opposite charges attract each other, while like charges repel each other. This is known as the Golden Rule of electrostatics.
3) Conductors allow charge to pass through and insulators do not. Atoms can gain or lose electrons, becoming positively or negatively charged. Charging occurs through friction, which causes materials like plastic to gain or lose electrons.
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comes from the Greek words elektron (meaning “amber”, see box below) and statikos (roughly meaning “stationary”).
It is therefore the study of stationary charge.
However, ironically, we often look at the way in which individual charges move into these stationary positions.
A charged rod attracting scraps of
Opposite Charges Attract; Like Charges Repel paper. Taken from Opfindelsernes Bog [1978] (“Book “Book of Inventions”) Inventions by André This is the Golden Rule! If you remember nothing Lütken. else, then remember this. Do the rod and paper have the same, same or different, charges?
Remember the difference between conductors and insulators? A conductor
allows charge to pass through it, while an insulator does not. STATIC ELECTRICITY P2 Conductors, Atoms and Negative Charges
Metals conduct very well because they have free electrons;
charges which are able to move around. An atom is made up of protons (positive charge), electrons (negative charge) and neutrons (uncharged). However, atoms can gain or lose electrons: they can become either positively or negatively charged.
Adding electrons ⇒ atom will become negatively charged.
Amber, famous for having Removing electrons ⇒ atom becomes positively charged. insects trapped inside, was admired by the Ancient Greeks Charging by Friction for its electrostatic properties; it gains charge when friction is When Perspex or Polythene, along with various other applied. materials (see right) are rubbed, they may gain or lose electrons, depending on the material.
As electrons are negatively charged, this
means that the substance becomes either positively or negatively charged itself.
Charge and Force
So two positive (or two negative) charges
will repel each other. A positive and a negative charge will attract each other.
Unlike charges attract;
like charges repel.
Two charges, when brought close to one
another, will exert a force on one another. STATIC ELECTRICITY P2