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| Law of Conservation of Charge |
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| The net amount of electric charge produced in any process is zero; no net electric charge can be created or destroyed. |
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| Material with electrons bound very tightly to the nuclei. |
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| Material with some electrons (free or conduction) bound very loosely and can move about freely within the material (note, they can not leave the object easily) |
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The force one object exerts on a second object is proportional to the product of the magnitudes and inversely proportional to the sqaure of the distance: F=k (Q1 Q2)/r2 |
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| Proprotionality Constant k |
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Any point in space is defined as the force F exerted on a tiny positive test charge placed at that point divided by the magnitude of the test charge q, where E = F/q E may be described as the force per unit charge and has the units N/C |
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