5 Questions
What does electrostatics study?
Slow-moving or stationary electric charges
What is the source of the word 'electricity'?
The Greek word for amber
What law describes the forces that electric charges exert on each other?
Coulomb's law
At what scale do electrostatic forces play a large role?
Atomic scale
What does Coulomb's law state?
The magnitude of the electrostatic force is directly proportional to the product of the magnitudes of charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
Test your knowledge of electrostatics, a branch of physics that deals with stationary electric charges and their interactions. Learn about Coulomb's law and various electrostatic phenomena through this quiz.
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