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Upper Secondary-IGCSE
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A learner rubs a plastic rod with a wool cloth. The rod gains a negative electrostatic charge. Before the experiment, the rod had no electrostatic charge. State the one word that means 'having no electrostatic charge'.

Important Questions on Static Electricity

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Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
Physics for Cambridge IGCSE workbook>Chapter 17 - Static Electricity>Exercise 17.1>Q 1
Give an example of a material that does allow charge to flow through it.
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Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
Physics for Cambridge IGCSE workbook>Chapter 17 - Static Electricity>Exercise 17.1>Q 2
A learner rubs a plastic rod with a wool cloth. The rod gains a negative electrostatic charge. Before the experiment, the rod had no electrostatic charge. State the one word that means 'having no electrostatic charge'.
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Upper Secondary-IGCSE
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Physics for Cambridge IGCSE workbook>Chapter 17 - Static Electricity>Exercise 17.1>Q 3
State what type of particles have been transferred to the rod when plastic rod is rubbed with a wool cloth. 
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Upper Secondary-IGCSE
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Physics for Cambridge IGCSE workbook>Chapter 17 - Static Electricity>Exercise 17.1>Q 6
Explain why conductors allow electrostatic charge to flow through them, but other materials do not allow charge to flow through them.
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Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
Physics for Cambridge IGCSE workbook>Chapter 17 - Static Electricity>Exercise 17.3>Q 2
Draw the field patterns around an isolated positive charge.
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Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
Physics for Cambridge IGCSE workbook>Chapter 17 - Static Electricity>Exercise 17.3>Q 2
Draw the field patterns around a negatively charged sphere.
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Upper Secondary-IGCSE
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Physics for Cambridge IGCSE workbook>Chapter 17 - Static Electricity>Exercise 17.3>Q 2
Draw the field patterns between two parallel plates that have a potential difference between them.
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Upper Secondary-IGCSE
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Physics for Cambridge IGCSE workbook>Chapter 17 - Static Electricity>Exercise 17.3>Q 3

Draw field patterns between the charges shown in the figure.

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