Static Electricity

Like charges attract

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• false

Opposite charges attract

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• false

For an object to be electrically neutral it must have no charge in it or on it.

• true
• false

Charges cannot be created or destroyed.

• true
• false

Bits of paper stick to a plastic comb that has been rubbed because of electric charge.

• true
• false

When electrons are transferred from one object to another, positive and negative charges are separated.

• true
• false

Charges in conductors cannot easily move around.

• true
• false

Touching an object with a negatively charged rod is an example of charging by induction.

• true
• false

Electrostatics is the study of electrical charges that can be collected and held in one place.

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• false

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

NGSS.HS-PS3-5

An electron and a proton have the same amount of charge.

• true
• false

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-4