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31 cards·by Braineos312
Galvanometer
A tool used to detect or measure electricity in a magnetic field.
Electromagnetism
Magnetism created by an electrical current as with an electromagnet.
Coulomb's Law
Like charges repel each other and unlike charges attract.
Controlled Experiment
An experiment with only 1 variable
Conductor
A material that allows electricity to flow through it.
Circuit Breaker
A panel that contains switches that automaticaly stops the flow of electricity when the
electricity is up to overheating and damage.
Variable
The only part of an experiment that changes in the tests of a hypothesis.
Technology
Applying knowledge in practical ways.
Proton
A Positively charged particle in an atom.
Phonograph
The first machine that could save sounds and replay them an early type of record player.
Patent
A legal document giving an inventor the right to be the only person to make, use, or sell their
invention for a set amount of years.
Lodestone
A natural magnet made of mineral magnetite; has north and south poles.
Electron
Negatively charged particle in an atom.
Electromagnet
A metal rod changed into a magnet by being surrounded by a wire carrying an electric current.
Discharge
To let go of electrical energy.
Coulombs
a practical unit of measurement of the quantity of electric charge.
Atom
The smallest part of a material that can exist either alone or combined with something else.
Force Field
The space where electricity and magnetism operates.
Fuse
A safety device for stopping an electrical current if the electrical current becomes
overloaded.
Repel
to push away from
attract
to pull torward
Dynamo
A machine that produces electricity also called a generator.
Current
The movement or flow off electric charges.
Capacitor
A device that is used to collect and store electricity.
Volt
An electrical unit of measurement
Unbalanced charge
A object does not have an equal number of protons and electrons.
Static electricity
Isolated electrical charges that do not move through a circuit.
Semiconductor diode
An electronic device that restricts current flow chiefly to 1 direction.
Semiconductor
Any of a certain group of solids that conducts electricity more than an insulator but less than
a conductor
Particles
small parts that make up atoms
Insulator
A material that doesn't conduct electricity .