Chapter 10 glossary terms

• The movement flow of electrically charged particles.
• (e.g. static electricity)

When a object has a imbalance of electrons and protons, which makes the object with more electrons to be charged.

Charging a object by rubbing it against another object which transfers electrons from one object to the other.

A list of materials that are arranged from the weakest hold on electrons to the strongest.

• A insulator is an object that restricts/slows the flow of electrons through it more than conductors/semiconductors.
• (e.g. rubber)

A conductor is a object/material that easily lets electrons pass through it will little to no resistance.

A semiconductor is a object/material that lets electrons pass through will more difficulty than a conductor but with less resistance than a insulator.

Used in some plugs to help the flow of electrons get to the ground,travelling through pipes and wires.

An electroscope is a machine used to measure the strength of a electric charge on a object.

Charging by contact is when you charge a object through the contact of two objects one charging the other.

• Unlike charges attract
• Like charges repel each other.

The field surrounding each charged particle.

The transfer of electrons where bot objects remain neutral,the objects do not directly touch.