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Chapter 16 - Electric Charge and Electric Field


Important Terms

You should be able to write the definition or meaning of each of the following terms:

electrostatics
electric charge
conductor
insulator
electrons
law of conservation of charge
charging by induction
Coulomb's law
Coulomb
permittivity of free space
elementary charge
principle of superposition
electric field
electric flux
Gauss' law for electrostatics
Gaussian surface
electric dipole
dipole moment


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