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IB Physics Vocab
Section: Electrostatics
Term | Definition |
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Law of Conservation of Charge | The total electric charge of an isolated system remains constant. |
Conductor | material through with electric charge flows freely |
Insulator | material through which electric charge does not flow freely |
Coulomb’s Law | The electric force between two point charges is directly proportional to the product of the two charges and inversely proportional to square of the distance between them, and directed along the line joining the two charges. (F = k q1 q2 / r2) |
Insulator | material through which electric charge does not flow freely |
Electric Field Strength (E) | Electric force per positive unit test charge (E = F/q) |
Radial Field | field that extends radially (like the electric field around a point charge or the gravitational field around a planet) |
Electric Potential (V) | work done per unit charge moving a small positive test charge in from infinity to a point in an electric field. (V = W/q) (V = kq/r) (NOTE: the work done is path independent) |
Electric Potential Energy (Ee) | energy that a charge has due to its position in an electric field |