Marta, Cato, and Juan plan a skit to illustrate one of the methods of charging.Marta and Cato are walking together. Each has one flower and one box of candy. Juan offers Cato a huge bouquet of flowers, but Cato can’t take it because his hands are full.Cato hands his flower to Marta and then turns to Juan to take the bouquet.Marta walks away in one direction with two flowers and one box of candy. Juan keeps the bouquet and walks away in the other direction. Cato looks sad standing alone with only a box of candy.
Tracy scuffs her socked feet across a carpet. When she touches a doorknob, she gets a small shock.How did Tracy become charged?
Jason makes a graphic organizer for insulators and conductors and wants to add the following labels to it.Label 1: Lacks free electronsLabel 2: AluminumIn which regions should Jason place each label?

Moira is drawing the electric field lines around a pair of charges. One charge is positive, and the other charge is negative.

Which pair does NOT have an electric force between them?
Kiki makes a table to compare the particles in a magnesium atom to those in a magnesium ion.She knows that a magnesium ion has an electric field that points away from the ion. What values should she use to complete her table?

How do the charges compare when two objects are charged through friction?
The area around a charged object that can exert a force on other charged objects is a(n) _________.
A positive rod is placed to the left of sphere A, and the spheres are separated.

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