Charge
Charge: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Types of Electric Charges, Positive Charge, Negative Charge, Transfer of Charge, Electroscope, Earthing, Attraction of Opposite Nature of Charges & Repulsion of Same Nature of Charges etc.
Important Questions on Charge
An electroscope is a device which is used to find whether an object is charged or not.

The gain of which subatomic particle results in the generation of a negative charge on an object?

_____ (Attraction/ Repulsion) is used as a test for identifying an electrically charged object.

The gold leaves of an uncharged electroscope _____ each other, if a charged body is brought in contact with it.
(Choose from the following: repel/attract)

An electroscope works on the principle of repulsion of _____ charges.

In a gold-leaf electroscope, a disc is connected to a narrow _____ plate and a thin piece of gold leaf is fixed to the plate.

The gold leaves of an uncharged electroscope _____ each other, if a charged body is brought in contact with it.
(Choose from the following: repel/attract)

Like charges _____ (repel/attract) each other.

The confirmation for a body to be charged is _____.

On rubbing glass rod with silk, silk gets _____ charge.

On a rubbing ebonite with flannel, flannel gets _____ charge.



Unlike charges repel each other and like charges attract each other.

Charging a body by touching it with a charged body is called charging by _____.

Atoms or a group of atoms with a positive or negative charge in an electrolyte.



When a negatively charged body is made to touch a neutral body, the neutral body gets _____.

