Static Electricity Questions
1. What is static electricity?
2. What is electrostatics?
3. What are two types of charges?
4. What is the law of attraction and repulsion?
5. When an object gains or loses charges what is actually moving?
6. What is the difference between an insulator and a conductor?
7. Give and example of an insulator and a conductor.
8. What are three methods of charging an object?
9. What two methods of charging an object involves contact with the
object?
10.What method of charging an object does not involve contact with an
object?
11.What is a neutral atom?
12.What method of charging involves the rearrangement of charges?
13. Explain in your own words what is happening when you get a shock
from a door knob or a lightning strike. You may include a diagram to
help you explain.
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