Electric Charge

amber

What precious stone did the Greek associate electricity during 600 B.C.?

Neil Bohr

Who is the Danish Physicist who created the planetary structure of an atom?

Benjamin Franklin

Who is the American Scientist who stated that there are two types of electricity?

Fundamental Law of Charges

What Law suggest that opposite charge attract and unlike charges repel?

Law of Conservation of Charges

What Law suggest that charges can neither be created nor destroyed?

Conductors

What kind of substance permits the passing of electricity from one particle to another?

Insulator

What material do not permit electrons to flow freely from one particle to another?

William Gilbert

his book entitled De Magnete used the new Latin word electricus which means “of amber”

proton

1.6 X 10 -27kG

neutron

1.6 X 10 -27kG

electron

9.1 X 10 -31kG

positively charge atom

atom loses electrons

negatively charge atom

atom gains electrons

Joseph John Thomson

discovered electron

Ernest Rutherford

discovered proton

James Chadwick

discovered neutron

Charles Andre de Coulomb

Coulomb symbol

Fundamental Law of Charges

Opposite charges ATTRACT. Like charges REPEL

Friction

A method of charging that happens based on the following conditions: made physicalcontact, uncharged before contact, oppositely charge after contact.