Quiz in Electric Field and Charges

  1. What is the force between two charged objects described by?
  2. What is the fundamental property of matter that causes it to experience a push or pull when near another charged object?
  3. What is the unit of electric charge?
  4. What kind of material allows electrons to flow freely?
  5. What process involves charging an object without direct contact?
  6. What is the law that quantifies the force between two point charges?
  7. What type of charge does a proton have?
  8. What property describes a material’s ability to conduct electricity?
  9. What is the term for the constant that describes the ability of a vacuum to permit electric field lines?
  10. What is the opposite of a conductor in terms of electrical conductivity?
  11. What is the type of charge that electrons possess?
  12. What principle states that the total charge in an isolated system remains constant?
  13. What device stores electrical energy in an electric field?
  14. What term describes the ability of a material to store electrical energy in an electric field relative to free space?
  15. What phenomenon occurs when like charges repel and unlike charges attract?
  16. What kind of balance did Coulomb use to measure the force between charges?
  17. What theory unifies electricity and magnetism into a single framework?
  18. What term refers to the electric force per unit charge at a point in space?
  19. What is the inverse square law relevant to in electrostatics?
  20. What is the smallest unit of electric charge?

Key

  1. Coulomb’s
  2. Charge
  3. Coulomb
  4. Conductor
  5. Induction
  6. Coulomb’s
  7. Positive
  8. Conductivity
  9. Permittivity
  10. Insulator
  11. Negative
  12. Conservation
  13. Capacitor
  14. Permittivity
  15. Electrostatics
  16. Torsion
  17. Electromagnetism
  18. Field
  19. Coulomb’s
  20. Electron