4. The credit of discovery of facts goes to
Thales of Miletus , Greece , around 600 B.C.
The property which differentiates two kinds
of charge called polarity of charge.
The charges were named as positive and
negative by the American scientist Benjamin
Franklin.
By convention ,the charge on glass rod or
cat’s fur is called positive and that on plastic
rod or silk termed negative.
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In olden days electricity
and magnetism treated
as separate subjects .
Lorentz put forward a
theory where they show
interdependence of
these two subjects. This
field is called
electromagnetism.
ELECTROSTATIC
• Study of static charge
ELECTRODYNAMIC
• Study of dynamic charge
12. CHARGE
Electric charge on a
body may be positive
negative and zero.
It does not depend
upon the velocity of
body
It is quantised and
conserved .
Force between
charges can be
attractive and
repulsive.
MASS
Mass of a body is
positive quantity
Mass of a body
increase with its
velocity .
The quantisation of
mass is yet to be
established .
Mass is not conserved.
The gravitational
force between two
masses is always
attractive.
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18. NUMERICAL#1
A Polythene piece rubbed with the
wool is found to have a negative
charge of 3*10-7C.
(i) Estimate the no. of electrons
transferred from which to which?
(ii) Is there a transfer from wool to
polythene?
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19. What is the total charge of the system
containing five charges +1,+2,-3,+4 and -5in
some arbitrary unit?
A metal sphere has a charge -6μC. When 5
*10000000000000 (ten to the power
12)electrons are removed from the sphere
,what would be the net charge on it?
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20. 1. Describe some of the differences between
charging by induction and charging by
concept.
2. (i) Explain the meaning of the statement
“electric charge of a body is quantised”
(ii) Why can one ignore quantisation of electric
charge when dealing with macroscopic,ie
large scale charge?
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