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1 Charge and Electric Fields

Objectives

➜ ➜ Describe the idea of an electric field as forces acting across the space

between objects not in contact.
➜ ➜ Identify how matter can be charged and how charge can be detected.

Vocabulary

• Atom • Field lines • Non-contact force

• Attract • Force • Particle
• Electric charge • Matter • Positively charged
• Electric field • Negatively charged • Proton

• Electron • Neutral • Repel
• Exert • Neutron

Let’s Start

What is an electric charge?

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