Match each term to its definition
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- Quantisation
- Right
- charge comes only in multiples of e
- Left
- Additivity
- Right
- charges add algebraically, with signs
- Left
- Conservation
- Right
- an isolated system's total charge is fixed
- Left
- Superposition
- Right
- pairwise forces add as vectors
- Left
- Electric field
- Right
- force per unit positive test charge
Explanation
The chapter's core vocabulary. Source: syllabus Physics Part I, Ch 1 Electric Charges and Fields.