Ch19 Static Electricity

C

Unit of electric charge is the coulomb

Insulator

Substance through which electric charge does not flow

Conductor

Substance through which electric charge flows

Outside of a conductor

A static charge resides on the

Accumulate at most pointed

Static charge on a conductor tends to

Coulomb’s law

States that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point charges is directly proportional, the product of the charge and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

Electric field

Any region of space where static electric charge experiences a force other than the force of gravity

Electric field line

Drawn in an electric field showing the direction of the force on a positive charge placed in the field

Electric field strength E

Force per coulomb

Newton per coulomb

Unit of electric field strength