{"id":1192,"date":"2012-02-01T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/wordpress\/regents\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2012-02-01T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T13:43:23","slug":"electric-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/wordpress\/regents\/em\/electrostatics\/electric-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Matter is made up of atoms. Once thought to be the smallest building blocks of matter, we now know that atoms can be broken up into even\u00a0smaller pieces, known as protons, electrons, and neutrons. Each\u00a0atom consists of a dense core of positively charged protons <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">and uncharged (neutral) neutrons. This core is known as the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">nucleus. It is surrounded by a \u201ccloud\u201d of much smaller, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">negatively charged electrons. These electrons orbit the nucleus in distinct energy levels. To move to a higher energy level, an electron must absorb energy. When an electron falls to a lower energy level, it gives off energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Most atoms are neutral &#8212; that is, they have an equal number of positive and negative charges, giving a net charge of 0. In certain situations, how- ever, an atom may gain or lose electrons. In these situations, the atom as a whole is no longer neutral and we call it an <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: bold;\">ion. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">If an atom loses one or more electrons, it has a net positive charge and is known as a positive ion. If, instead, an atom gains one or more electrons, it has a net negative charge and is therefore called a negative ion. Like charges repel each other, while opposite charges attract each other. In physics, we represent the charge on an object with the symbol <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-style: italic;\">q. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Charge is a fundamental measurement in physics, much as length, time, and mass are fundamental measurements. The fundamental unit of charge is the Coulomb [C], which is a very large amount of charge. Compare that to the magnitude of charge on a single proton or electron, known as an elemen- <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">tary charge, which is equal to 1.6\u00d710<sup>-19<\/sup> coulomb. It would take 6.25\u00d710<sup>18<\/sup> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">elementary charges to make up a single coulomb of charge! (Don\u2019t worry about memorizing these values, they\u2019re listed for you on the front of the reference table).<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: bold;\">Conductors and Insulators <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Certain materials allow electric charges to move freely. These are called <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: bold;\">conductors. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Examples of good conductors include metals such as gold, copper, silver, and aluminum. In contrast, materials in which electric charges can- not move freely are known as <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: bold;\">insulators. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Good insulators include materials such as glass, plastic, and rubber. Metals are better conductors of electricity compared to insulators because metals contain more free electrons. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Conductors and insulators are characterized by their resistivity, or ability to resist movement of charge. Materials with high resistivities are good insula- tors. Materials with low resistivities are good conductors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: bold;\">Semiconductors <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">are materials which, in pure form, are good insulators. However, by adding small amounts of impurities known as dopants, their <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">resistivities can be lowered significantly until they become good conductors.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: bold;\">Charging by Conduction <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Materials can be charged by contact, or <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: bold;\">conduction. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">If you take a balloon and rub it against your hair, some of the electrons from the atoms in your hair are transferred to the balloon. The balloon now has extra electrons, and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">therefore has a net negative charge. Your hair has a deficiency of electrons, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">therefore it now has a net positive charge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Much like momentum and energy, charge is also conserved. Continuing our hair and balloon example, the magnitude of the net positive charge on your hair is equal to the magnitude of the net negative charge on the balloon. The total charge of the hair\/balloon system remains zero (neutral). For ev- ery extra electron (negative charge) on the balloon, there is a correspond- ing missing electron (positive charge) in your hair. This known as the law of conservation of charge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Conductors can also be charged by contact. If a charged conductor is brought <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;\">into conduct with an identical neutral conductor, the net charge will be shared across the two conductors.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/wordpress\/regents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/NewImage1.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"82\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\"><strong>Question: <\/strong>If a conductor carrying a net charge of 8 elementary charges is brought into contact with an identical conductor with no net charge, what will be the charge on each conductor after they are separated?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong> Each conductor will have a charge of 4 elementary charges.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Electroscope<\/h2>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">A simple tool used to detect small electric charges known as <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">an <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: bold;\">electroscope <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">functions on the basis of conduction. The electroscope consists of a conducting rod attached to two thin<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(2.450000%, 3.136000%, 3.234000%); vertical-align: -1.000000pt;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">conducting leaves at one end and isolated from surround<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">ing charges by an insulating stopper placed in a flask. If a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">charged object is placed in contact with the conducting rod, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">part of the charge is transferred to the rod. Because the rod <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">and leaves form a conducting path and like charges repel <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">each other, the charges are distributed equally along the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">entire rod and leaf apparatus. The leaves, having like <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">charges, repel each other, with larger charges providing <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">greater leaf separation!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h2>Charging by Induction<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">Conductors can also be charged without coming into contact with another charged object in a process known as charging by <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: bold;\">induction. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">This is accomplished by placing the conductor near a charged object and grounding <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">the conductor. To understand charging by induction, you must first realize <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">that when an object is connected to the earth by a conducting path, known <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">as <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">grounding, the earth acts like an infinite source for providing or accept<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">ing excess electrons.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/wordpress\/regents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/NewImage4.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"350\" height=\"221\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">To charge a conductor by induction, you first bring it close to another charged <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">object. When the conductor is close to the charged object, any free electrons on the conductor will move toward the charged object if the object is positively charged (since opposite charges attract) or away from the charged object if the object is negatively charged (since like charges repel). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">If the conductor is then \u201cgrounded\u201d by means of a conducting path to the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">earth, the excess charge is compensated for by means of electron transfer to or from earth. Then the ground connection is severed. When the originally charged object is moved far away from the conductor, the charges in the conductor redistribute, leaving a net charge on the conductor as shown.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">You can also induce a charge in a charged region in a neutral object by bringing a strong positive or negative charge close to that object. In such cases, the electrons in the neutral object tend to move toward a strong positive charge, or away from a large negative charge. Though the object itself remains neutral, portions of the object are more positive or negative than other parts. In this way, you can attract a neutral object by bringing a charged object close to it, positive or negative. Put another way, a positively charged object can be attracted to both a negatively charged object and a neutral object, and a negatively charged object can be attracted to both a positively charged object and a neutral object. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana';\">For this reason, the only way to tell if an object is charged is by repulsion. A positively charge object can only be repelled by another positive charge and a negatively charged object can only be repelled by another negative charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matter is made up of atoms. Once thought to be the smallest building blocks of matter, we now know that atoms can be broken up into even\u00a0smaller pieces, known as protons, electrons, and neutrons. 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