This week, consider the following terms:

• Conductor
• Electric field
• Electron
• Field
• Insulator
• Polarized
• Static electricity

Choose at least 2 terms from the list and answer the following questions for each term:

• What familiarity and prior knowledge do you have about the term?
• What does the term mean in everyday language to everyday people? Use examples to help describe your thoughts. How do people use the word?
• What does the term mean in technical language to physicists?
• How is the term related to the course student learning outcome: Use forces and fields to explain and quantify electricity?
• What are the similarities and differences between the everyday and technical meanings and uses of the term?
• How might the similarities and differences impact your learning of physics concepts in this course?