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| particle with an electric charge |
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| Says that opposites attract: positively charged objects are attracted to negatively charged objects; objects with the same charged repel (push away) one another: two negatively charged objects will push away from each other... so will two positively charged objects |
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| When charges build up on an object |
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| When built up charges (static electricity) leave the object so that it is no longer charged |
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| Substances that carry electrical energy well |
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| Substances that don't carry electrical energy well |
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| An element or compound that conducts electric current better than an insulator but not as well as an conductor |
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| When a substance doses carry electricity but it slows it down |
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| A circular path that electrical charges flow through |
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| Anything that can be made to work by electricity your television and the bulb in your lamp would be called the load |
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| A circuit with more than one load all in one big circle |
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| A circuit with more than one load but each load has a separate branch so it is on its own circle |
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| Electric current in which the charges continually switch from flowing in one direction to flowing in the reverse direction |
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| Electric current in which the charges always flow in the same direction |
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| The force that pushes electrons through a circuit |
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| The flow of electricity through a circuit |
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| A small electronic device used in a circuit as an amplifier or switch |
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| A device that allows current to flow through it in only one direction |
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| Av device that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy |
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| A device that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy |
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| A temporary magnet that consists of a solenoid wrapped around an iron core |
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| The process by which an electric current is produced by a changing magnetic field |
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| Any material that attracts iron or materials contain iron |
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| The region around a magnet in which magnetic forces can act |
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| One of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetic field is the strongest |
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