ELECTROSTA

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ELECTRIC
TIC:
CHARGES,
FORCES AND
Presentation by

COULOMB’S LAW
ERWIN S. MOSKITO ,LPT
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Describe using a diagram charging by rubbing
and charging by induction
• Explain the role of electron transfer in
electrostatic charging by rubbing
• Describe experiments to show electrostatic
charging by induction
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Calculate the net electric force on a point charge
exerted by a system of point charges
• Describe an electric field as a region in which an
electric experiences a force
• Calculate the electric field due to a system of
point charges using Coulomb’s law
• Calculate electric flux
What is electricity?
What are the things studied in
electricity?
❑ Trains, electronic gadgets, heating and cooling
appliances and many more, even our brain uses
electricity to work.
❑ Electricity – is an invisible force in nature consisting of
two electric charges protons and electrons.
❑ The word “electric” is derived from the Greek word
electron, meaning amber.
❑ They discovered that when they rubbed amber with
wool, the amber attract other objects.
 ELECTRIC CHARGE
❑ Plastic rods and fur are particularly good for
demonstrating, electrostatics, the interaction between
electric charges that are at rest.
❑ Benjamin Franklin suggested to calling the two kinds of
charges which are positive and negative charges.
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 ELECTRIC CHARGE

❑The key concepts is:

Two positive charges or two negative charges
repel each other. A positive and a negative
charge attract each other.
 ELECTRIC CHARGE AND STRUCTURE
OF MATTER
❑ The structure of atoms can be describe in three
particles:
electron, proton and neutron.
❑ The nucleus is composed of the proton and the
neutron.
❑ The atom is surrounded by a cloud of electrons.
ELECTRIC CHARGE AND STRUCTURE OF MATTER
NET ELECTRIC CHARGE
 CHARGED IS CONSERVED
❑ One important aspect of electricity that arises from
experimental observation is that electric charge is always
conserved in an isolated system.
EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTROSTATIC
 CONDUCTORS, INSULATORS AND SEMICONDUCTORS
❑ Conductors – materials that permit electric charge to move easily from
one region of the materials to another.
❑ Insulators – materials that do not easily permit the electric charge to
flow.
❑ Semiconductors – is a material that has an intermediate property
conductor and insulator.
 CHARGING BY INDUCTION
❑ INDUCTION – Charging process that does not involve contact
 ELECTRIC CHARGE
❑ Electric charge can be represented by the symbol (Q).
❑ With a unit called Coulomb that is represented by C.
❑ The unit of electric charge is named after Charles Augustine De Coulomb.
❑ Coulombs found out that each
electric point charge exerts a
mechanical force on the another.
❑ 1 Coulomb of charge is equal to
6.25 x 10 18 electrons
 COULOMBS LAW
❑ “The magnitude of the electric force between two point charges is
directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely p.
Example Problem:
1. Two point like charges of 3nC and -5nC
are 2m apart. Determine the magnitude of
the force between them
Example Problem:
2. Two equal charges of magnitude 1.1 x 10 C -7

experience an electrostatic force of 4.2 x 10 N.

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How far apart are the centers of the two charges?