PHYSICS FORM 5

ELECTRIC FIELD & CHARGE FLOW

OBJECTIVE:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to: Identify the electric field and charge flow. Identify the electric current. Identify the type of ammeters. Know how to sketch the electric field lines. Identity the effect of electric field acting on a charged body.

Electric field

Charge flow

Quizzes

M E N U
Reference

Summary

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L I G H T N I N G

ELECTRIC FIELD
Q1 : What causes like charges to repel and unlike charges to attract? Answer : This is because a charged object exerts an electrostatic force (that is attractive force or repulsive force) on nearby objects.

ELECTRIC FIELD
The charge object sets up an electric field in the space around it. When a charge is moving in an electric field, an electric current is said to flow.

ELECTRIC FIELD LINES

The direction of electrostatic forces experienced by two opposite charges (electrodes) in electric field. Electric field lines are directed from positive charge(electrode) to negative charge(electrode).

This figures show the direction of the electrostatic forces..

The closer the electric fields lines, the stronger electrostatic forces. The electric field lines neither branch off nor intersect one another.

Effect of Electric Field Acting On A Charged Body

Van de Graaff
Electric field is formed by using a Van de Graaff generator. Charges are transmitted to body when person touch the generator.

Human body forms an electric field around it. The hairs stand on the ends because they carry like charges and repel each other.

CHARGE FLOW
Negative electric charges which are carried by electrons are pushed from the negative terminal (-) of the cell. These electrons go through the circuit and back to the positive terminal (+) of the cell. This flow of electric charges forms an electric current.

ELECTRIC CURRENT
Is defined as the rate of charge flow, that is

 Where Q is the quantity of charge flow and t is the time taken The unit of electric current is ampere (A) The unit of the quantity of charge flow is coulomb (C). Hence, 1A = 1Cs

TYPE OF AMMETERS
Electric current is measured by using an ammeter, a milliammeter or a microammeter.

1. Ammeter

2. Miliammeter

3. Microammeter

Type of ammeter
ammeter milliammeter microammeter

Ampere (A)
1A 1mA = 10A 1A = 10A

QUIZZES

QUESTION 1
Electron flows from __________________ charges to __________________ charges.

Answer..

Electron flows from

NEGATIVE __________________ charges to POSITIVE __________________ charges.

QUESTION 2
Match the unit for each ammeter

ammeter
milliammeter

microampere
ampere

microammeter

milliampere

Answer..

ammeter

microampere

milliammeter

ampere

microammeter

milliampere

QUESTION 3
Sketch the electric field lines for each of the diagram

Answer..

QUESTION 4 Electric field lines are directed from the __________________ electrode to the __________________ electrode.

Answer..

Electric field lines are directed from the POSITIVE __________________ electrode NEGATIVE
to the __________________ electrode.

ELECTRICITY
ELECTRIC FIELD

CHARGE FLOW

ELECTRIC CURRENT

TYPES OF AMMETER

ELECTRIC FIELD LINES

EFFECT OF ELECTRIC FIELD

I = Q/ t

AMMETER

MILLIAMMETER

VAN DE ` GRAAFF

MICROAMMETER

THANK YOU.

REFERENCES
Textbook Physics Form 5 KBSM, Aras Mega(m) Sdn Bhd Reference book Golden New Vision Physics SPM, Eastview http://www.wikepidea.com