Worksheet 17.

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Electric charges
Experiments with static electricity show that there are two
types of electric charge. Test your knowledge of how an
object can gain a charge and how we know about the forces
between electric charges.
1 When a polythene rod is rubbed with a woollen cloth, the rod gains a
negative charge.
a What type of electric charge does the cloth gain?
b What type of charged particles are passed from the cloth to the rod?
c What charge do these particles have, positive or negative?
d What force causes this transfer of charge?
2 When an acetate rod is rubbed with a cotton cloth, the rod gains a
positive charge. Describe how you would set about showing the following
rules for electric charges:

Like charges repel.

Unlike charges attract.

You should mention the following:

the equipment you would use

what you would do with it
what you would expect to observe
how this would show the rules stated above.

Cambridge University Press 2014

Worksheet 17.11

IGCSE Physics