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Multiple choice physics electric charges and fields explaining static electricity charging by induction static electricity

During electrification by friction

  1. Proton are transferred from one body to another body

  2. Neutrons are transferred from one body to another body

  3. Electrons are transferred from one body to another body

  4. None
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

When a body is rubbed over another,transfer of electrons from one body to another. Thus one body acquires a net positive charge and the other acquires net negative charge.proton and neutron are packed in the nucleus thus they cannot move.

example - When a glass rod is rubbed with a silk cloth some electrons from the glass attach themselves to the silk. Consequently, the glass becomes positively charged and the silk negatively charged. Likewise when ebonite is rubbed with fur electrons are transferred from fur to ebonite, thus making the ebonite negative and the fur positive.

Option C is correct.

Multiple choice physics static electricity explaining static electricity charging by induction electric charges and fields

An ebonite rod rubbed with fur and a glass rod rubbed with silk cloth are brought nearer to each other. Then

  1. they will attract each other

  2. they will repel each other

  3. nothing will happen to them

  4. they will get heated up
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

When an ebonite rod is rubbed with fur, the ebonite rod gets negatively charged and the fur becomes positively charged. Whereas when a glass rod is rubbed with silk cloth, the glass rod becomes positively charged and the silk cloth becomes negatively charged.

Now as we know that unlike charges attract each other, thus the glass rod and the ebonite rod will attract each other as they have opposite charges.

Multiple choice physics static electricity explaining static electricity charging by induction electric charges and fields

Which of the following statement is NOT true?

  1. Lightning and spark from woolen clothing are essentially the same phenomena.

  2. When you rub a plastic scale on your dry hair, it acquires a charge.

  3. Charge acquired by a glass rod when it is rubbed with silk is called as negative charge.

  4. Static charges are called so, because they do not move by themselves
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

When a glass rod is rubbed with silk then it gets net positive charge whereas silk gets negatively charges by electron transfer through friction.When a glass rod is rubbed with silk, it acquires a positive charge whereas silk acquires a negative charge. So, statement is not True.

Multiple choice physics static electricity explaining static electricity charging by induction electric charges and fields

The electric charge developed on glass rod rubbed with silk cloth is different from the charge developed on ebonite rod rubbed with fur.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

When glass rod is rubbed with silk cloth, it acquires positive charge.
But when ebonite rod is rubbed with fur, the rod gets negatively charged.
So, charge developed on glass rod rubbed with silk is different from charge developed on ebonite rod rubbed with fur. Hence this statement is true.

Multiple choice physics static electricity explaining static electricity charging by induction electric charges and fields

The electricity developed on objects, when they are rubbed with each other is called:

  1. Frictional potential

  2. Frictional electricity

  3. Static electricity

  4. Static potential
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The electricity developed on the objects when they are rubbed with each other is called Frictional electricity. On rubbing two objects, both materials get electrified due to friction produced while rubbing them. One of the body acquires negative charge and other acquires positive charge.

Multiple choice physics static electricity explaining static electricity charging by induction electric charges and fields

A woolen cloth when rubbed against plastic object acquires ______ charge.

  1. Sometimes positive and sometimes negative

  2. Negative

  3. Positive

  4. None of the these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

When woolen cloth is rubbed against the plastic, both wood and plastic get electrified due to friction produced while rubbing. So, plastic has greater electron affinity (ability to attract electrons) as compared to wool, therefore, plastic acquires negative charge and wool acquires positive charge.

Multiple choice physics static electricity explaining static electricity charging by induction electric charges and fields

A glass rod when rubbed with silk cloth, acquires a charge of $1.6\times 10^{-11}C$, then the charge on silk cloth will be:

  1. $-3.2\times 10^{-11}C$
  2. $-2.4\times 10^{-13}C$
  3. $-1.6\times 10^{-13}C$
  4. $-1.6\times 10^{-11}C$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

When glass rod is rubbed with silk, electrons move from rod to silk.


Since silk gets electrons it becomes negatively charged and the number of electrons gained by silk is same as that lost by rod.

Hence magnitude of charge on silk is same as that on rod.

Hence charge on silk$=-1.6\times 10^{-11}C$ 

Answer-(D)

Multiple choice physics static electricity explaining static electricity charging by induction electric charges and fields

When a polythene piece is rubbed with wool, it acquires negative charge. 

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

When a polythene piece is rubbed with wool, both gets electrified due to charging by friction. Since polythene has greater electron affinity (ability to attract electrons) as compared to wool. So, polythene piece attracts electron and acquires negative charge and wool acquires positive charge.

Multiple choice physics static electricity explaining static electricity charging by induction electric charges and fields

Which statement best explains why a rubber rod becomes negatively charged when rubbed with fur?

  1. The rubber that the rod is made of is a better insulator than fur.

  2. The fur is a better insulator than the rubber.

  3. Molecules in the rubber rod have a stronger attraction for electrons than the molecules in the fur.

  4. Molecules in the fur have a stronger attraction for electrons than the molecules in the rubber rod.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

During charging by rubbing (or by friction) process, the material that becomes negatively charged does so because it likes electrons more than the material with which it is rubbed. It means molecules in rubber rod have a stronger attraction for electrons than the molecules in the fur.