1st year of post-compulsory secondary education
Electrical phenomena
José Luis San Emeterio
 ELEC 
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1.2 Differences between conductors and insulators
 
Your experience also tells you that if you had done the previous experiment with a metal pen, you would not have been able to charge it. This is due, you would say, to the fact that metal is a  conductor and plastic is an insulator. Could you explain the difference between these two types of bodies? Of course, conductors can also be charged. Could you explain a way to do this? The image of the electric spark between charged bodies will perhaps help you.

In the following sections, unless stated otherwise, we are going to study the electric field created by charged bodies without taking into account whether they are conductors or insulators. 

 

Electric force
What we already know
Coulomb's law
More than two charged particles
Conclusions
The concept of field intensity
Intensidad de campo
Lines of force
Conclusions
Potential energy and potential
What are these magnitudes?
Superposition. Work in the field
Conclusions
Potential, field and movement of charged particles
Relation between field intensity and potential
Movement of charged particles
Conclusions
Evaluation