EASY
Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

Draw the field patterns around an isolated positive charge.

Important Questions on Static Electricity

EASY
Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
What name is given to materials that allow electricity to flow through it?
EASY
Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
Give an example of a material that does allow charge to flow through it.
EASY
Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
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'.
EASY
Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
State what type of particles have been transferred to the rod when plastic rod is rubbed with a wool cloth. 
EASY
Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
The cloth when rubbed with the plastic rod is left with positive charge. Which type of particles it has more?
MEDIUM
Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT

Figure shows one way in which the learner could observe the forces exerted by electrostatically charged cloth and rod on each other. Write a brief description of the experiment. Explain how it is done and describe what you would observe.

EASY
Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
Explain why conductors allow electrostatic charge to flow through them, but other materials do not allow charge to flow through them.
EASY
Upper Secondary-IGCSE
IMPORTANT
Explain why we get a shock when we walk across a carpet and touch a door handle.