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| Electric Charge | A property that causes subatomic particles such as protons and electrons to attract or repel each other. |
| Electric Force | The force of attraction or repulsion between electrically charge objects. |
| Electric Field | The effect an electric charge has on other charges in the space around it. |
| Static Electricity | The study of the behavior of electric charges, including how charge is transferred between objects. |
| Law of Conservation of Charge | The total charge in an isolated system is constant. |
| Electric Current | Continuous flow of electric charge. |
| Direct Current | Charge flows only in one direction. |
| Alternating Current | Flow of electric charge that regularly reverses its direction. |
| Electrical Conductor | Material through which charge can flow easily. |
| Electrical Insulator | A material through which charge cannot flow easily. |
| Resistance | Opposition to the flow of charges in a material |
| Superconductor | A material that has almost 0 resistance when it is cooled to low temperatures. |
| Potential Difference | The difference in electrical potential energy between two places in an electric field, also called voltage. |
| Battery | A device that converts chemical energy to electrical energy. |
| Ohm's Law | V = I * R |
| Electric Circuit | A complete path through which charge can flow. |
| Series Circuit | Charge has only one path through which it can flow. |
| Parallel Circuit | An electric circuit with two or more paths through which charges can flow. |
| Electric Power | The rate at which electrical energy is converted to another form of energy. |
| Fuse | Prevents current overload in a circuit. |
| Circuit Breaker | A switch that opens when current in a circuit is too high. |
| Grounding | The transfer of excess charge through a conductor to Earth. |
| Electronics | Information sent as patterns in the controlled flow of electrons through a circuit. |
| Analog Signal | A smoothly varying signal produced by continuously changing the voltage or current in a circuit. |
| Digital Signal | Encodes information as a string of 1's and 0's. |
| Semiconductor | A crystalline solid that conducts current only under certain conditions. |
| Dioide | A solid-state component that combines an n-type and p-type semiconductor. |
| Transistor | A solid-state component with three layers of semiconductors. |
| Integrated Circuit | A thin slice of silicon that contains many solid-state components. |
| Computer | A programmable device that can store and process information. |
