Electric charge
Electric charge: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as electric charge, types of electric charges, positive charge, negative charge, attraction of opposite nature of charges, etc.
Important Questions on Electric charge
How can you find whether a body is conductor or an insulator with the help of a gold leaf electroscope?

Which are the three main ways of charging a neutral object. Explain.

Which electroscope is used to measure the charge of the body and its polarity? Explain in detail.

Explain the working of gold leaf electroscope with a diagram.

An electroscope is a device which is used to find whether an object is charged or not.

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

If the positive and negative charge on a body is balanced, then there is no net charge on the body.

Like charges _____ (repel/attract) each other.

Why do two bodies get charged by rubbing against each other?

Keep a spent tube light in a dark place. Rub it vigorously with a thin polythene bag. What happened? Why?

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

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



What do you mean by charge? How many types of charges?

What are the interactions between two charges?

Charges acquired by rubbing is called _____.

Amber is _____ (resin/ stone/ hard material).

How are negative and positive charges related to each other?

What do you mean by static electricity?
