| Learning Objectives (See related pages)
After completing this chapter, you should be able to
1. Demonstrate the existence of two kinds of electric charge and verify the first law of electrostatics using laboratory materials. |
| | | 2. Explain and demonstrate the processes of charging by contact and by induction and use an electroscope to determine the nature of an unknown charge. |
| | | 3. State Coulomb's law and apply it to the solution of problems involving electric forces. |
| | | 4. Define the electron, the coulomb, and the microcoulomb as units of electric charge. |
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