SP7c Electric fields

Question 1

What is an electric field?

Answer 1

the volume of space around a charged object, in which another charged object can experience a force.

Question 2

What can an electric field do?

Answer 2

attract or repel object with an electric charge (it can also attract objects to an object with no overall charge)

Question 3

Do field lines go away or towards a positive charge?

Answer 3

away.

Question 4

Do filed lines go away or towards a negative charge?

Answer 4

towards.

Question 5

What do field lines not do, do and show?

Answer 5

.they never cross
.always run from positive to negative or outwards if there is only one object
.show the strength of the field by how close they are

Question 6

When an object loses or gains an electron what does it acquire and what does that create?

Answer 6

it acquires a net electric charges which creates an electric field around the object.

Question 7

What is a uniform electric field?

Answer 7

a field in which the value of field strength is the same at all points.