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| static electricity | the study of the behavior of electric charges |
| Law of Conservation of Charge | the total charge in an isolated system is constant |
| electrical conductor | material that charge can easily flow through |
| electrical insulator | material that charge cannot easily flow through |
| electric charge | property that causes subatomic particles to attract or repel |
| electric force | force of attraction or repulsion |
| electric field | the effect an electric charge has on other charges in the space around it |
| voltage | another term for potential difference |
| induction | a transfer of charge without contact between materials |
| electric current | continuous flow of electric charge |
| potential difference | the difference in electrical potential energy between two places in an electric field |
| resistance | opposition to the flow of charges in a material |
| Ohm's Law | the voltage in a circuit equals the product of the current and the resistance |
| series circuit | charge has only one path to flow |
| parallel circuit | circuit where charges have two or more paths to flow |
| electrical power | the rate at which electrical energy is converted into another form of energy |
| magnet | iron (or an ore, alloy, or other material) that has atoms that have properties of magnetism |
| magnetic force | the force a magnet exerts on another magnet, iron or metal, or moving charges |
| magnetic field | area around a magnet that can exert magnetic forces |
| magnetic pole | region where a magnet's forces are strongest |
| magnetic domain | a region that has a large number of atoms with aligned magnetic fields |
