Chapter 22- Charge Flashcards
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what is charging ?
Frictional forces, such as rubbing, add something called charge to an object or remove it from the object. The process itself is called charging. More vigorous rubbing produces a larger quantity of charge.
at first they discovered that there is only 2 types of charges. what are they ?
There are two and only two kinds of charge. For now we will call these “plastic charge” and “glass charge.” Other objects can sometimes be charged by rubbing, but the charge they receive is either “plastic charge” or “glass charge.”
what happens when two likes charge are close together
and two opposite charge ?
Two like charges (plastic/plastic or glass/glass) exert repulsive forces on each other. Two opposite charges (plastic/glass) attract each other.
what is the type of force between 2 charges ?
the force between two charges is a long-range force. The size of the force increases as the quantity of charge increases and decreases as the distance between the charges increases.
neutral objects has what ?
Neutral objects have an equal mixture of both “plastic charge” and “glass charge.” The rubbing process somehow manages to separate the two.
how do you tell if an object is charge ?
However, an important characteristic of any charged object appears to be that a charged object picks up small pieces of paper. This behavior provides a straightforward test to answer the question, Is this object charged? An object that passes the test by picking up paper is charged; an object that fails the test is neutral.
what is charge model , part 2 .
1) There are two types of materials. Conductors are materials through or along which charge easily moves. Insulators are materials on or in which charges remain fixed in place.
2) Charge can be transferred from one object to another by contact.
what is discharging ?
Removing charge from an object, which you can do by touching it, is called discharging.
example of insulators ?
glass and plastic
example of conductor ?
metal
In Experiment 12, touching one metal sphere with a charged plastic rod caused a second metal sphere to become charged with the same type of charge as the rod. Use the postulates of the charge model to explain this.
Charge is transferred upon contact.
Metal is a conductor, and charge moves through a conductor
Like charges repel.
The plastic rod was charged by rubbing with wool. The charge doesn’t move around on the rod, because it is an insulator, but some of the “plastic charge” is transferred to the metal upon contact. Once in the metal, which is a conductor, the charges are free to move around. Furthermore, because like charges repel, these plastic charges quickly move as far apart as they possibly can. Some move through the connecting metal rod to the second sphere. Consequently, the second sphere acquires “plastic charge.”
To determine if an object has “glass charge,” you need to
See if the object attracts a charged plastic rod.
See if the object repels a charged glass rod.
Do both a and b.
Do either a or b.
do both a and b ?
electrons and protons has what kind of charge ?
Thus by convention electrons have a negative charge and protons a positive charge.
Franklin established a convention about charges .
what is it ?
It’s entirely up to us! Franklin established the convention that a glass rod that has been rubbed with silk is positively charged. That’s it. Any other object that repels a charged glass rod is also positively charged. Any charged object that attracts a charged glass rod is negatively charged. Thus a plastic rod rubbed with wool is negative.
electron and protons have opposite signs of charge but has equal…
has exactly the same magnitude.
charge is represented by the symbol..
Q
what is the formula for charged proton ?
q =( Np -Ne) e
where Np is number of protons
Ne is the number of electron
an object with equal number of proton and electron has what kind of charge ?
An object with an equal number of protons and electrons has no net charge (i.e., q=0) and is said to be electrically neutral.
a object is postively charged when ..
an object is negatively charged when …
A charged object has an unequal number of protons and electrons. An object is positively charged if Np>Ne. It is negatively charged if Np
objects acquire postive charge by ,,,
why ?
what is it called ?
objects acquire a positive charge not by gaining protons, as you might expect, but by losing electrons. Protons are extremely tightly bound within the nucleus and cannot be added to or removed from atoms. Electrons, on the other hand, are bound rather loosely and can be removed without great difficulty. The process of removing an electron from the electron cloud of an atom is called ionization. An atom that is missing an electron is called a positive ion. Its net charge is q=+e.
how does friction between 2 objects causes it to become + and -.
The forces of friction cause molecular bonds at the surface to break as the two materials slide past each other. Molecules are electrically neutral, but Figure 22.3 shows that molecular ions can be created when one of the bonds in a large molecule is broken. The positive molecular ions remain on one material and the negative ions on the other, so one of the objects being rubbed ends up with a net positive charge and the other with a net negative charge. This is the way in which a plastic rod is charged by rubbing with wool or a comb is charged by passing through your hair.
law of conservation of charge
what is it ?
Charge is neither created nor destroyed. Charge can be transferred from one object to another as electrons and ions move about, but the total amount of charge remains constant. For example, charging a plastic rod by rubbing it with wool transfers electrons from the wool to the plastic as the molecular bonds break. The wool is left with a positive charge equal in magnitude but opposite in sign to the negative charge of the rod: q wool=−q plastic. The net charge remains zero.
explain how the electrons and protons are in an insulator ?
The electrons in the insulator are all tightly bound to the positive nuclei and not free to move around. Charging an insulator by friction leaves patches of molecular ions on the surface, but these patches are immobile.
check pic in book
explain how the electrons and protons are in an conductor ?
In metals, the outer atomic electrons (called the valence electrons in chemistry) are only weakly bound to the nuclei. As the atoms come together to form a solid, these outer electrons become detached from their parent nuclei and are free to wander about through the entire solid. The solid as a whole remains electrically neutral, because we have not added or removed any electrons, but the electrons are now rather like a negatively charged gas or liquid—what physicists like to call a sea of electrons—permeating an array of positively charged ion cores.