Computers are very sensitive to electrical shock. Describe how you could use sticky tape to determine whether an object has an excess charge that could be transmitted to your computer (and ruin your processor). In addition, your procedure must include a way to determine the kind of excess charge on the object.

Match each vocabulary term to its definition. 1. electrons neutral subatomic particles found in the nucleus of the atom 2. neutron lowest energy position of an electron in an atom 3. photon the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom 4. ground state negatively charged, subatomic particles 5. protons packet of energy of specific size 6. element substance with only one type of atom 7. orbital positively charged, subatomic particles found in the nucleus of the atom