Physics Unit Test
- Static Electricity
- Different means of creating an electric charge
- Friction
- Contact
- Induction
- Law of Electric Charge
- Reading Electrostatic Series Charts
- Insulators vs. Conductors
- Induced Charge Separation & Charging conductors by Induction
- Uses of Static Electricity
- Cleaning Air Pollution
- Spray-Painting
- Lightning Rods
- Photocopiers
- Current Electricity
- Difference between Static and Current Electricity
- Parts of an Electric Circuit
- Sources of Energy
- Loads
- Connectors
- Switches
Open vs. Closed Circuits
- Voltmeters
- How to attach them, what they do, S.I. units
- Ammeters
- How to attach them, what they do, S.I. units
- Calculations:
- Ohm's Law: V=IR
- Graphing Voltage vs. Current
- Drawing Electric Circuit Diagrams
- Series vs. Parallel circuits
- Cells in series vs. cells in parallel - how are they attached?
- Patterns for current and voltage for both series and parallel:
- Series: Vtotal = ?, Itotal = ?, Rtotal = ?
- Parallel: Vtotal = ?, Itotal =?
- Resistance and Resistors - Factors and their effects, Definitions, Equations
- Electrical Energy - definition and calculations
- Electrical Power - definition and calculations
- Percentage Efficiency - definition and calculations