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2 Static Electricity and Charge: Conservation of Charge Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: - Define electric charge, and describe how the two types of charge interact. - Describe three common situations that generate static electricity. - State the law of conservation of charge. What makes plastic wrap cling? Static electricity. Not only are applications of static electricity common these days, its existence has been known since ancient times. The first record o

Chapters

• 2 Static Electricity and Charge: Conservation of Charge
• Primary Navigation
• 7 Electric Field Lines: Multiple Charges
• 8 Electric Forces in Biology
• 9 Conductors and Electric Fields in Static Equilibrium
• 13 Electric Potential Energy: Potential Difference
• 14 Electric Potential in a Uniform Electric Field
• 16 Equipotential Lines
• 20 Energy Stored in Capacitors
• 23 Ohm’s Law: Resistance and Simple Circuits
• 24 Resistance and Resistivity
• 25 Electric Power and Energy
• 26 Alternating Current versus Direct Current
• 27 Electric Hazards and the Human Body
• 40 RLC Series AC Circuits
• 42 Magnets
• 43 Ferromagnets and Electromagnets
• 44 Magnetic Fields and Magnetic Field Lines
• 46 Magnetic Field Strength: Force on a Moving Charge in a Magnetic Field
• 48 The Hall Effect
• 51 Magnetic Fields Produced by Currents: Ampere’s Law
• 52 Magnetic Force between Two Parallel Conductors
• 53 More Applications of Magnetism
• 55 Induced Emf and Magnetic Flux
• 58 Motional Emf
• 62 Transformers
• 72 The Law of Refraction
• 76 Image Formation by Mirrors
• 79 Physics of the Eye
• 80 Telescopes
• 88 Young’s Double Slit Experiment
• 96 Einstein’s Postulates
• 99 Quantization of Energy
• 104 The Wave Nature of Matter
• 107 Discovery of the Parts of the Atom: Electrons and Nuclei
• 108 Bohr’s Theory of the Hydrogen Atom
• 110 Radiation Detection and Detectors
• 111 Substructure of the Nucleus

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