TEKS:P.6A/B/C Coulomb's law

Electrostatics:

The study of electric charges that can be collected and held in one place.

Neutral:

An object whose positive charges are exactly balanced by its negative charges.

Electric Insulator:

A material through which electric charge will not move easily.

Static Electricity:

Imbalance between positive and negative charges within a material.

Electric Current:

A flow of charged particles.

Electric Charge:

the amount of energy or electrons that pass from one body to another by different modes like conduction, induction, or other specific methods.

Attract vs. Repel:

Attract: a force that causes objects to move closer together.

Repel: to force something to move away or move apart from something else.

Coulomb's Law:

States that the force between two point charges varies directly with the product of their charge and inversely with the square of the distance between them.

​Instructions:

-Add and remove charges to see the affect on objects in the simulator
-Move two charged objects together & farther apart to show how distance impacts force

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​Coulomb's law

PhET Simulator: Coulomb's law