{"id":10325,"key":"Law_of_conservation_of_charge","title":"Law of conservation of charge","latest":{"id":1205573,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T15:50:23Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"The '''law of conservation of charge''' is that the net electrical [[charge]] of an isolated or overall system does not change.\n\n* Charge is conserved\n* Overall charge remains unchanged\n* Charge may be created or destroyed\n** Must have positive/negative pairs\n\n== Formula ==\n\nThe following information was extracted from Wikipedia:\n\n Q(t2) = Q(t1) - Qin - Qout\n\n* Q = quantity of charge\n* t = time\n\n== Characteristics of Charges ==\n\n* May have: positive ''( + )'' or negative charge ''( - )''\n* Proton: ( + ) positive charge\n* Electron: ( - ) negative charge\n* Like repels like ''( + , + ) or ( - , - )''\n* Opposite charges attract ''( + , - )''\n* Charge can be transferred from one object to another\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [[Wikipedia:Charge conservation]]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:PH261]]\n[[Category:Electricity]]"}