## Definition

Law of conservation of Charge - The net electrical charge of an isolated or overall system does not change.

• Charge is conserved
• Overall charge remains unchanged
• Charge may be created or destroyed
• Must have positive/negative pairs

## Formula

The following information was extracted from Wikipedia

                                            Q(t2) = Q(t1) - Qin - Qout

• Q = quantity of charge
• t = time

## Characteristics of Charges

• May have: positive ( + ) or negative charge ( - )
• Proton - ( + ) positive charge
• Electron - ( - ) negative charge
• Like repels like ( + , + ) or ( - , - )
• Opposite charges attract ( + , - )
• Charge can be transferred from one object to another
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