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ELECTROSTATICS - CHAPTER 9
Answer True or False
_______ 1. All atoms in matter always contain electric charge.
_______ 2. A static electric charge is produced where a rubbing action occurred between two objects.
_______ 3. Like charges attract each other while unlike charges repel each other.
_______ 4. A charged object will not attract an uncharged object.
_______ 5. An object becomes negatively charged when it loses it's protons to another substance when
they come into contact with each other.
_______ 6. When rubber is rubbed with cotton, the cotton will become negatively charged and the
rubber will be positively charged
_______ 7. Two factors that will affect the amount of static charge produced when two different
substances come into contact with each other are: the amount of contact and the strength of a
nucleus to attract electrons.
_______ 8. A negative charge can be transferred from one substance to another by contact.
_______ 9. A positive charge an be transferred from one substance to another by contact.
_______ 10. A positive charge can be created by a negatively charge object by induction.
_______ 11. A negative charge can be created by a negatively charged object by induction.
_______ 12. A substance that allows electrons to move freely within it is a conductor.
_______ 13 Nonmetal are good conductors of electrons (electricity).
_______ 14. An ebonite rod and a glass rod are both examples of insulators.
_______ 15. Dry air is an insulator. That is why there is more static electricity in winter buil up on your
clothes than in summer.
_______ 16. When we ground an object we connect it to the earth with an insulator.
_______ 17. Your body is a good conductor of electricity.
_______ 18. Conductors with pointed ends discharge electrons more efficiently than spherical
conductors.

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_______ 19. A dust particle can be attracted to a TV screen by a charging effect called induced charge
separation.
20. Rewrite all the False statements above to make them correct.
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ELECROSTATICS - DRAWINGS
CHARGING BY CONTACT
I) Complete the following drawings to show the flow of electrons as a conductor becomes charge by
contact with a negatively charged ebonite rod.

neutral conductor
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negatively charged ebonite rod close but not

touching the conductor

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A)

B)

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ebonite rod makes contact with the conductor

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C)

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negatively charged conductor

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II) Complete the following drawings to show the flow of electrons as a conductor becomes charge by
contact with a positively charged glass rod.

neutral conductor
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positively charged glass rod close but not

touching the conductor

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+

A)

B)

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glass rod makes contact with the conductor

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C)

positively charged conductor