1) French physicist best known for the formulation of Coulomb’s law. a) Benjamin Franklin b) Hans Christian Ørsted c) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb d) André-Marie Ampère 2) The first person to coin and use the terms positive and negative charge. a) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb b) Benjamin Franklin c) André-Marie Ampère d) Hans Christian Ørsted 3) The physical law stating that an electric current creates a magnetic field. a) Coulomb's Law b) Snell's Law c) Oersted's Law d) Ampere's Law 4) The force of interaction between electric charges. a) Coulomb's Law b) Ampere's Law c) Snell's Law d) Oersted Law 5) He states that when a steady electric current passes through a wire it creates a magnetic field around it. a) André-Marie Ampère b) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb c) Benjamin Franklin d) Hans Christian Ørsted 6) He discovered that a wire carrying electric current can attract or repel another wire next to it that's also carrying electric current. a) Benjamin Franklin b) André-Marie Ampère c) Hans Christian Ørsted d) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 7) They both discovered that the intensity of the magnetic field set up by a current flowing through a wire is inversely proportional to the distance from the wire. a) André-Marie Ampère and Hans Christian Ørsted b) Benjamin Franklin and  Michael Faraday c) Felix Savart and James Clerk Maxwell d) Jean-Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart 8) He invented the world's first electrical generator. a) MIchael Faraday b) James Clerk Maxwell c) Benjamin Franklin d) Felix Savart 9) A law stating that when the magnetic flux linking a circuit changes, an electromotive force is induced in the circuit proportional to the rate of change of the flux linkage. a) Coulomb's Law b) Faraday's Law c) Biot-Savart Law d) Ampere's Law 10) Famous for his theory of electromagnetism. a) James Clerk Maxwell b) Benjamin Franklin c) Michael Faraday d) André-Marie Ampère

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