AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism/Unit 1/Note Packet
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Unit 1: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law

AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism — Note Packet

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Electric Charge

Fundamental property of matter, comes in two types: _ and __________. (0:00)

Conserved (Charge)

Electric charge cannot be _ or destroyed; it can only be moved around. (0:00)

Quantized (Charge)

Electric charge comes in _ packets, multiples of the elementary charge 'e'. (0:00)

Elementary Charge 'e'

The smallest unit of charge, approximately 1.602 x 10^-19 _. (0:00)

Coulomb's Law

Describes the electrostatic _ between two point charges; F_e = k * |q1 * q2| / r^2. (0:00)

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