Electric Charges and Fields: Fundamental Concepts Quiz

Question 1

What happens when two positive electric charges are brought close to each other?

Accepted Answer

Repel each other

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Attract each other

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Neither attract nor repel

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Merge into one charge

Question 2

According to the principle of quantization of electric charge, what can be said about the total charge on an object?

Accepted Answer

It is always an integer multiple of the elementary charge

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It can have any fractional value

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It is always a negative value

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It depends on the object's mass

Question 3

Which statement best describes the law of conservation of electric charge?

Accepted Answer

Total charge in an isolated system remains constant

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Charge can be created or destroyed

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Charge can only be transferred from positive to negative objects

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Charge always increases with time

Question 4

How does the electric force between two point charges change if the distance between them is doubled?

Accepted Answer

It becomes one-fourth as strong

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It doubles

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It is halved

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It becomes four times stronger

Question 5

What is an electric field?

Accepted Answer

A region around a charged object where another charged object experiences a force

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A region where magnetic forces are strongest

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The path of electrons in a circuit

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The amount of charge an object holds

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