Non-contact forces vocab

Science

Magnetic force

The force of attraction or repulsion between magnetic poles

Pole

The end of a magnet with a North (positive) or South (negative) change

Force field

Region of space in which an object will experience a non-contact force

Contact force

A push or a pull where the objects are touching

Proton

Positively charged particle in the nucleus of an atom

Electron

Negative charged particle that moves around the nucleus of an atom

Electric force

The attraction or repulsion between

Attraction

to pull toward due to opposite charges or poles

Repulsion

to push away due to like charges or poles

Electrostatic force

transfer of electrons from one object to another

Gravitational force

the pull between two objects that depends on the masses of the objects and the distance between them

Non-contact force

a force that one object can apply to another object without touching it.

Charge

A measure of the extra positive or negative particles that an object has.

Electromagnetic force

the attractive or repulsive force between electric charges and magnets

Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation

Every object in the universe attracts every other object