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Electrostatic charge results from?

Transfer or redistribution of electrons

The unit of electric charge is the?

Coulomb

An electric field describes the condition of space around?

A charged particle

A material that has electrons that are free to move throughout the material is a(n)

Electric conductor

What's an example of an electrical insulator is?

Glass

The electrical potential difference between two points in a circuit is measured in units of?

Volt

The rate at which an electric current flows through a circuit is measured in units of ?

Amp

The law that predicts the behavior of electrostatic forces acting through space is

Coulombs law

what type of electric current is produced by fuel cells and solar cells

Dc

the electrical resistance of a conductor is measured in units of?

Ohm

According to ohms law what must be the greater to maintain the same current in a conductor with more resistance

Voltage

A kilowatt per hour is a unit of

Work

If you multiply volts by amps the answer will be in units of

Power

Units of joules per second are a measure called a

Watt

A lodestone is a natural magnet that attracts

Iron,cobalt,nickel

The North Pole of a suspended or floating bar magnet currently. Directly towards Earths

North Magnetic pole

A current carrying wire always has

A magnetic field with closed concentric field lines around the length of the wire

Magnetism is produced by

Moving charges

Earths magnetic field

Has undergone many reversals in polarity

The strength of magnetic field around a current-carrying wire varies directly with the

Amperage of the current

Reverse the direction of a current in a wire and the magnetic field around a wire will

Have a reversed North Pole direction

The operation of which of the following depends on the interaction between the two magnetic fields

Car stereo speakers, Telephone, Relay circuit

An electric meter measures the

Strength of a magnetic feild

When I lubb of wire cut across magnetic field lines or magnetic field lines move across a loop of wire

Electrons are pushed toward one end of the loop

A step up transformer steps up the

Voltage

Electromagnetic induction occurs when recording of wire cut across magnetic field lines which one of the following increases the voltage produced

Increased strength of magnetic field

Electric Power Company step up the voters are generated power for transmission across the country because higher voltage

Reduces the current which lowers the energy lost to resistance

A solar cell

Produces electricity directly

Which of the following is most likely to acquire an electrostatic charge

Electrical nonconductor

Which of the following units are measures of rates

Amp and watt

You are using which description of a current if you consider a current to be positive charges that flow from a positive to the negative terminal of a battery

Conventional current

In an electric current the electrons are moving

At a very slow rate

In which of the following Curren is there no electron movement from one end of the conducting wire to the other end

Alternative current

If you multiply amps. Volts the answer will be in units of

Power

A permanent magnet has magnetic properties because

the magnetic domains are aligned

a current carrying wire has a magnetic field around it because

A moving charge produces a magnetic field of its own

When an object acquires a negative charge it actually

Gains mass

A positive and negative charge are initially 2 centimeters apart what happened to the force on each as they are moved closer and closer together? The force

Increases while moving

To be operational a complete electric circuit must contain a source of energy a device that does work and

A conductor from the source to the working device and another conductor back to the source

Which variable is inversely proportional to the resistance

Cross-sectional area of conductor

Which of the following is not considered to have strong magnetic properties

Silver

A piece of iron can be magnetized or unmagnetized this is explained by the idea that

Atoms of iron are grouped into tiny magnetic domains that may orient themselves in a particular direction or in a random of direction

Are magnetic field is believed to originate

With electric currents that are somehow generated in Earth's core

This speaker in a stereo system works by the action of

And electro-magnetic pushing and pulling on a permanent magnet

Electromagnetic induction takes place because

Electrons have their own magnetic field which interacts with an externally applied magnetic field

The current in the secondary cool of a transformer is produced by

Varying magnetic field

An electromagnetic uses

An electric current to produce a magnetic field

A transformer

Changes the voltage of an alternating current

A parallel circuit has

Separate pathways for the current to flow through

In which type of circuit would you expect a reduction of the available voltage as more or more resistance are added to the circuit

Series circuit

In which type of circuit would you expect the same voltage with an increase current as more and more resistance are added to the circuit

Parallel circuit