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Electricity and Magnetism Cheat Sheet Table of Contents: Charge Vocabulary Section Notes Capacitors Vocabulary Section Notes Electric Currents Vocabulary Section Notes Series and Parallel Vocabulary Section Notes Charge Vocabulary Ion when an electron is removed from an atom (normal atoms have same number of electrons and protons) Insulators charge can be rubbed on or off their surfaces, but it tends to stick there and will not move easily through the materials (examples: rubber, glass, plastic) Conductors electrons can move around freely and easily (examples: copper, silver, aluminum, and other metals) Electricity a flow of electrons through a conductor Electron a subatomic particle with a negative charge; they are mobile, can flow from one atom to another Electrostatic the charges are stationary Coulomb the unit of charge Volt Joule per Coulomb; the unit of electric potential energy (letter symbol: V, symbol: the source, | l [battery]) Net Charge the sum of the negative and positive charges Electrical Ground a reservoir of positive and negative charges Field Lines give a very convincing picture of electric fields Section Notes ● Like charges attract and unlike charges repel ● Two kinds of charges: negative and positive ○ Electrons have negative charge ○ Protons have positive charge ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ○ Neutrons have neutral charge A charged object will attract neutral objects Electrical force grows weaker with distance Electrons are elementary units of charge, and are transferred from one object to another Coulomb’s Law: F = K (Qq / r2) ○ Q and q are the values of the charges ○ r2 is the distance between charges ○ k is a constant (in standard units, k = 9 x 109) A single electron’s charge: e = 1.6 x 1019 coulombs Charge Conservation: the net charge in an isolated system cannot change A charge fills space with an electric field ○ When another charge is in the electric field, electric forces act on it Force exerted: work = force x distance Electric Potential = Potential Energy / Charge ○ Units: energy per charge = joule per coulomb = volt Gravitational Potential: the ability of the gravitational field to transmit energy to any mass with a height h using the equation potential energy / mass = gravity x height Capacitors Vocabulary Capacitor consists of two conductors separated by an insulator (symbol: | |) Capacitance is the constant of proportionality in Q = CV; number depends on characteristics of capacitor Farads the unit of measurement for capacitance Discharging neutralizing the plates of a capacitor Electron Volt the energy of one electron if the plates are charged to one volt (example: 100 V = 100 eV) Section Notes ● Capacitors are charged by removing charge from one plate and placing it on the other ● When the switch is closed, electricity flows and charge is pumped into the capacitor ○ The amount of charge pumped is proportional to the battery’s voltage ○ Q = CV, or Charge = Constant x Voltage ● The higher the capacitance, the more charge the capacitor can hold ● Capacitance is directly proportional to area of plates ● Capacitance is inversely proportional to distance between plates ● When a capacitor is charged, positive and negative charges face each other and hold each other in place across the insulator ○ There is also an electric field ● To convert electron volt to joules, use the definition of electric potential ○ 1 eV = charge of electron x 1 volt ○ 1 eV = 1.6 x 1019C x 1 J / C ○ 1 eV = 1.6 x 1019 Joules Electric Currents Vocabulary Voltage Drop the energy per charge that is going into heating and activating the item being powered (the difference in potential) Current the flow of charge (letter symbol: i) Ampere Coulomb per second, the unit of measurement for currents Conventional Current the flow of positive charges from the positive terminal of the battery to the negative Real Current the flow of negative charges from the negative terminal of the battery to the positive Ohm unit of resistance Multimeter measures voltage, currents and resistance Watt voltage x current, Joule per second; the unit of measurement of power Resistance resistance to current (letter symbol: R, symbol: /\/\/\/) Section Notes ● Ohm’s Law: i = V / R, or Current = Voltage / Resistance ○ The higher the voltage, the more current flows through a given resistance ● Resistivity is high in insulators and low in conductors, and rises with temperature ● By definition, power = watt = Joule / second ○ Power = (Joules / Coulomb) x (Coulomb / second) ○ Power = volts x amperes Series and Parallel Vocabulary Circuit a closed path in which electricity can flow Series Circuit when the component are connected together one after the other The Loop Theorem / Kirkhhoff’s First Law the total energy consumed must equal the energy produced by the battery Parallel Circuit when each component is connected directly to the battery The Junction Theorem / Kirkhhoff’s Second Law the current flowing into any junction in the circuit must equal the sum of the currents flowing out Section Notes ● In a series circuit, the sum of the voltage drops across the components must equal the battery voltage ○ Each component gets the same current ● In a parallel circuit, the current has to divide to flow through every component ○ The total resistance of the circuit is a fraction of the series circuit ○ So each component gets the same voltage, yet draws a current i inversely proportional to ir’s resistance (i = V / R) ● In series, you just add the resistance to get the total resistance ● In parallel, you add the reciprocal of each resistor to get the total resistance