Conductors and Insulators
- Resistivity is a material property, measured in (Ω·m)
Charging by Conduction
The Electroscope
An electroscope is used to detect small electric charges based on conduction
Charging by Induction
Polarization and Electric Dipole Moment
When a charged object is brought near a conductor, the electrons in the conductor are free to move
When a charged object is brought near an insulator, the electrons are not free to move, bu they may spend a little more time on the side of their orbit than another, creating a net separation of charge in a process known as polarization
The distance between the shifted positive and negative charges, multiplied by the charge, is known as the electric dipole moment
Coulomb's law