16-1: Static electricity; electric charge and its conservation

Answers: 1-b, 2-c, 3-b, 4-b, 5-a

1. Each type of charge:
a) Attracts the same charge
b) Attracts the opposite charge
c) Attracts no charge
2. The law of conservation of electric charge that the net amount of eectric
charge produced in any process is:
a) 2
b) 3
c) 0
3. When an object becomes charged as a result of rubbing it posseses:
a) Static electricity
b) A net electric charge
c) No charge
4. The law of conservation means that:
a) Net charge can be created or destroyed
b) No net charge can be created or destroyed
c) Net charge can only be created
5. If one object aquires a positive charge then:
a) An equal amount of negative charge will be found in neighbouring
objects
b) A different amount of negative charge will be found in neighbouring
objects
c) An equal amount of positive charge will be found in neighbouring
objects
16-2: Electric charge in an atom
Answers: 1-a; 2-b; 3-b; 4-b; 5-c
1. An atom has:
a) A positively charged nucleus surrounded by one or more negatively
charged electrons
b) A negatively charged nucleus surrounded by one or more negatively
charged electrons
c) A neutral nucleus surrounded by one or more negatively charged
electrons
2. The nucleus contains:
a) Neutrons
b) Neutrons and protons
c) Electrons
3. All protons and all electrons have the same magnitude of electric charge;
but their signs:
a) Are equal
b) Are opposite
c) There are no signs
4. A net positive or negative charge in an atom is called:
a) Cation
b) Ion
c) Anion
5. When an object is neutral, it contains:
a) More protons
b) More electrons
c) Equal amounts of protons and neutrons

16-3: Insulators and conductors

Answers: 1-a; 2-c; 3-a;
1. Materials that are conductors are:
a) Metals
b) Cloths
c) Wood
2. Insulators are materials that are:
a) Conduct electricity
b) Perserve electricity
c) Do not conduct electricity
3. Semiconductors are:
a) Silicone and germanium
b) Wood and rubber
c) Metal
16-4: Induced charged; the electroscope
Answers: 1-a; 2-a; 3-b; 4-c; 5-b
1. In charging with conduction two objects end up with:
a) The same sign of charge
b) Different signs of charge
c) No signs of charge
2. An electroscope is a device:
a) That can be used for detecting charge
b) That can be used for conducting
c) That can be used for conservations
3. If you bring a positively charged object close to a neutral nonconductor:
a) All electrons can move about freely within the conductor
b) No electrons can move about freely within the conductor
c) Some electrons can move about freely within the conductor
4. An electroscope be used to determine the sign of the charge:
a) If it is first charged by an insulator
b) If it is first charged by a semiconductor
c) If it is first charged by a conductor
5. The Earth can:
a) Not accept or give out electrons
b) Easily accept or give out electrons
c) Hardly accept or give out any electrons

16-5: Coulomb's law

Answers:1-b; 2-b; 3-c; 4-a; 5-a

1. Coulomb concluded that the force one small object exerts on a second one
is proportional to the product of the magnitude of the charge on one, times
the magnitude of the charge on the other, and:
a) Proportional to the square of the distance between them
b) Inversely proportional to the square of the distance
c) Opposite to the square od the distance
2. Coulomb's law gives:
a) The direction of the electric force that either objects exerts on the other
b) The magnitude of the electric force that either objects exerts on the
other
c) The distance of the electric force that either objects exerts on the other
3. The SI unit of charge is:
a) Joule
b) Newton
c) Coulomb
4. Electrostatics is the study of:
a) Charges at rest
b) Charges that move
c) Voltage
5. The principle of superposition tells us that:
a) Electric force vectors add like any other vector
b) Electric force vectors don't add
c) Electric force vectors add differently than other vectors
16-7: The electric field
Answers:1-b; 2-c; 3a; 4-a; 5-c
1. The idea of field was developed by:
a) Isaac Newton
b) Michael Faraday
c) Charles Coulomb
2. We can investigate the electric field surrounding a charge or group og
charges by measuring the force on:
a) A small negative test charge
b) A small neutral test charge
c) A small positive test charge
3. The electric field at any point in space is defined as:
a) The force exerted on a tiny positive test charge divided by the
magnitude of the test charge
b) The force exerted on a tiny positive test charge divided by the distance
c) The force exerted on a tiny positive charge multiplied by the distance
4. The superposition principle for electric field:
a) Is fully confirmed by experiment
b) Is partially confirmed by experiment
c) Is not confirmed by experiment
5. The formula for electric field is:
a) E=F*k
b) E=F/k
c) E=F/q
16-8: Field lines
Answers: 1-b; 2-a; 3-c; 4-b; 5-c
1. Electric field is sometimes referred as:
a) Atomic field
b) Vector field

c) Gravitational field
2. Electric field lines are drawn so that they indicate:
a) The direction of the force due to the given field on a positive charge
b) The direction of force due to the given field on a negative charge
c) The direction of force due to the given field on a both
3. An electric dipole
a) The electric field lines due to 2 charges of the same sign
b) The electric field lines due to 3 charges of the same sign
c) The electric fiels line due to 2 charges of opposite sign
4. Electric field lines are:
a) Directed to the positive charge away from the negative
b) Directed from the positive charge to the negative charge
c) Directed away from the positive and aways from the negative charge
5. Gravitatinoal field exists
a) For all objects without mass
b) For all objects
c) For all objects with mass
16-9: Electric fields and conductors; 16-10: Gauss's law; 16-11: DNA
structure and replication; 16-12:Photocopy Machines
Answers:1-a;2-c; 3-a; 4-a; 5-b
1. A related property of static electric fields and conductors is that the
electric field is always:
a) Perpendicular to the surface outside of a conductor
b) Inversely proportional to the surface outside a conductor
c) Parallel to the surfaceof a conductor
2. Gauss's law includes the concept of:
a) Electric field
b) Static electricity
c) Electric flux
3. Electric flux is:
a) The electric field passing through a given area
b) The static electricity passing though a given area
c) The electric field itself
4. The processes that occur within a cell are now considered to be the result
of:
a) Random molecular motion plus the ordering effect of the electrstatic
force
b) Arranged molecular motion plus the ordering effect of the electric flux
c) Random molecular motion plus the ordering effect eof the gravitational
field
5. Photocopy machines make use of what to print an image of the original:
a) Electric flux
b) Electrostatic attraction
c) Electric field lines