Introduction to Electrostatics

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Which material was known to attract lightweight particles after rubbing and led to the word 'electricity'?

  • Silver
  • Iron
  • Amber (correct)
  • Copper

What is the branch of physics that studies slow-moving or stationary electric charges?

  • Electronics
  • Electrostatics (correct)
  • Electrodynamics
  • Electromagnetism

What law describes the forces that electric charges exert on each other?

  • Faraday's Law
  • Newton's Law of Gravitation
  • Coulomb's Law (correct)
  • Ohm's Law

What phenomenon describes the attraction of plastic wrap to one's hand after it is removed from a package?

<p>Electrostatic phenomenon (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

At what scale do electrostatic forces play a large role?

<p>Nanoscale (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the SI unit of vacuum permittivity, ε0?

<p>C2⋅N−1⋅m−2 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What force between an electron and a proton is more than 39 orders of magnitude stronger than the gravitational force acting between them?

<p>Coulomb force (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the value of the Coulomb constant, ke?

<p>8.987551792 × 109 N⋅m2⋅C−2 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What defines the electrostatic force F on a hypothetical small test charge due to Coulomb's Law?

<p>Electric field, E (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of force exists between two point charges with the same sign?

<p>Electrostatic repulsive (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the magnitude of the electric field at any given point represented by?

<p>Density of electric field lines (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the electric field, E, represent?

<p>Force on a hypothetical small test charge at the point due to Coulomb's Law (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the Coulomb's law state about the electrostatic force between two point charges with different signs?

<ul> <li>It is attractive (A)</li> </ul> Signup and view all the answers

What happens to the electric field lines at the location of point charges?

<p>They diverge to infinity (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does ε0 represent in Coulomb's law?

<p>Permittivity of free space (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the SI units of ε0?

<p>C2⋅N−1⋅m−2 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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