Final - Electrostatics

Question 1

Electrostatic force is ____ proportional to the product of the electrostatic charges and ____ proportional to the square of the distance between them. (Coulomb’s law)

Answer 1

directly, inversely

Question 2

Electric charge is distributed ____ insulating objects or on the ____ of conducting objects.

Answer 2

throughout, surface

Question 3

A(n) ____ permits charges to flow freely.

- Example?

Answer 3

conductor

copper wire

Question 4

A(n) ____ impedes the the flow of charges.

- Example?

Answer 4

insulator

plastic covering on wires

Question 5

The electric charge of a conductor is concentrated where?

Answer 5

along the sharpest curvature of the surface