ATM 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Static Electricity, Valence Electron, Pith

• School: UCM
• Department: Automotive Technology Management
• Course: ATM 1010
• Professor: Berletic

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Chapter 1 notes: valence electrons, low number, single electron in the outer orbit of the atom. That is why copper, silver, and gold is an excellent conductor: tati(cid:272) ele(cid:272)tri(cid:272)ity is (cid:449)he(cid:374) ele(cid:272)tri(cid:272)ity has the potential to (cid:271)e dis(cid:272)harged, (cid:271)ut it is still (cid:862)at rest(cid:863). Thi(cid:374)k of (cid:449)ater hose (cid:449)he(cid:374) you ki(cid:374)k it (cid:449)ater is (cid:374)ot (cid:373)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)g, (cid:271)ut it has pressure a(cid:374)d potential to move, you are controlling it. Law of charges: two negatively or two positively charged pith balls repel each other, one negatively pith ball attracts one positively charged pith ball, 1 coulomb= 6. 24 x 1018 electrons.