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Conceptual physics
part five , electricity study guide
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08/08/2013

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The electrical force of attraction between an electron and a proton is greater on the
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Neither both are the same
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When you brush your hair and scrape electrons from your hair the charge of your hair becomes
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Positive
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According to Coulomb, a pair of charged particles placed twice as close to each other experience a force
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4 times as strong
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When you buy a piece of pipe in a hardware store the water does not come with. When you buy copper wire, electrons
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Are included in the wire
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Immediately after two separated charged particles are released from rest, both increase in acceleration. The sign of charge of the particles is tberfore
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Opposite
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The electric field between a PAIR of oppositely charged parallel plates, does it get weaker w distance inside the plate or follows the inverse square law.
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Neither of these
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A capacitor can store
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Charge and energy
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The electric field Inside the dome of a Van de Graff generator is zero when the dome is charged or uncharged
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Either of these
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The potential energy of a compressed spring and the potential energy of a charged object both depend on
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The work done on them
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The potential energy of a compressed spring and the potential energy of a charged object both depend on...
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the work done on them
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to receive an electric shock there must be a
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voltage difference across part or all of your body
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A 10 (0mega) resistor carries 10A. the voltage across the resistor is
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more than 10 V
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If the current in the filament of a lamp is 3 A, the current in the connecting wire is
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3 A
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the difference between dc and ac in electrical current is that in dc, charges flow
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in one direction
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As more lamps are connected to a series circuit, the current in the power source
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decreases
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In a series circuit, if the current in one lamp is 2A, the current in the lamp next to it is
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2A
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As more lamps are connected in parallel in circuit, the current in the power source
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increases
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In a circuit of two lamps in parallel, if the current in one lamp is 2 A , the current in the other lamp is
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Not enough information to say
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an electron can be speed-ed up by
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an electric field
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A motor and generator are
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similar devices
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if you change the magnetic field in a closed loop of wire, what is created in the loop is a(n)
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current, voltage and an electric field.
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a voltage will be induced in a wire loop when the magnetic field within that loop
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changes
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a step-up transformer in an electrical circuit can step up
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voltage
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compared with power input, the power output of an ideal transformer is
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the same
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Electricity and magnetism connect to form
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light
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