Charges in Electricity

An object becomes charged when electrons from that object are lost to another. It is an imbalance of positive and negative charges. A way that i could give my self a negative charge would be if i rubbed my shoes on a carpet a lot, that makes electrons from my body travel to the carpet. When an atom becomes charged it is called an ion. Atoms are made up of protons, netrons and electrons. Electrons are negative and they orbit around the nuclius, the nuclius has protons which are positive and nuetrons which are negative inside of it.When something becomes polarized it means that on an object the positive and negative charges are on oposite sides of the object because another object with a positive or negative charge is attracting the positives or the negatives. An insulator is a material that electrons canot travel on or through easily, it is a material that does not hold electrons tightly. Examples of insulators are like rubbers. A conductor is a material that conducts electrons and it holds electrons very tightly, they can flow over the conductor easily. Examples of conductors are metals and water. When two objects are electricaly attracted they have one that is more negative and one that is more positive so since like charges attract the positive goes to the negative, this is when objects are electrically attracted. A charged balloon picks up nuetral peices of paper because of polarazation. The charged balloon has an imbalance of positive and negative charges so when it comes close to the paper that has an equal number of positive and negative charges it makes the positive charges on the paper want to go to the balloon to equal out the number of positive and negatives on the object. So as the positive charges are being attracted the paper lifts up to the balloon becaus of the attraction. An Electric felid is the energy around the center of the charge, if the charge was negative it is pushing outwards all around it, that creates a feild of electricity. If there is two chrges and there in each others electric feilds then the two charges act upon eachother depending on if the charge is positive or negative. If you have a positive charge and then you bring another positive charge into that ones feils then the two charges are going to repel from each other, but if one was pos and one was neg then once they were in eachothers feilds they would attract. Each charge has an amount of energy in it, this is called Electric Potential Energy. Say you were holding two positive charges in each hand and they were in eachothers feilds but you just held them a certaine distance apart, there is a resistence you can fel between them an amount of energy that they are repeling away from each other with, that energy that the two charges have is called Electrical Potential Energy, if you let go of the charges they would repel and that energy would be converted to Kinetic Energy which is energy in motion. Electrical Potential Energy is measured in Joules per Columb or in other words Volts.