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vocab
Electricity and Magnetism ( chapter seven vocab)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Charging by contact | A transfer of electric charge between objects in contact |
| Charging by induuction | The rearrangement of eletric charge due to the presence of an eletric field |
| Insulators | Materials in which eletric charges don't move easily |
| Conductors | Materials in which eletric charge moves easily |
| Static charge | The imbalence of eletric charge on an object |
| Eletric discharge | The movement of static charge from one place to another |
| Eletric current | the flow of eletric charge |
| Eletric circut | A closed path in which eletric charges can flow |
| Eletric resistance | The measure of howdifficult it is for elecrons to flow in an object |
| Voltage | A measure of the amount of eletrical energy transferred to one another in a circut |
| Series circut | devices conected so that there is only one closed path for the current to follow |
| Parellel circut | Devices that are connected so there is more than one closed path for the current to follow |
| Magnetic domain | A group of atoms that have their magnetic poles pointing in the same direction |
| electromagnet | a current-carrying wire wrapped around an iron core |
| electromagnetic induction | The production of an eletric current by moving a magnet and a loop relative to each other |
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