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ISC Class 12 Electrostatics Overview

Thales of Miletus discovered attraction and repulsion in 600 BC when he observed that rubbed amber attracted lighter objects. He is credited with the first discovery of electric charge. Electrostatics is the branch of physics dealing with the forces, fields, and potentials arising from the surface of electrically charged bodies. Bodies can acquire an electric charge through rubbing, which results in a transfer of electrons, giving the body either a positive or negative polarity of charge. Like charges repel each other, while unlike charges attract.

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ISC Class 12 Electrostatics Overview

Thales of Miletus discovered attraction and repulsion in 600 BC when he observed that rubbed amber attracted lighter objects. He is credited with the first discovery of electric charge. Electrostatics is the branch of physics dealing with the forces, fields, and potentials arising from the surface of electrically charged bodies. Bodies can acquire an electric charge through rubbing, which results in a transfer of electrons, giving the body either a positive or negative polarity of charge. Like charges repel each other, while unlike charges attract.

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1.

The reason for experiences like electric chock when opening the car door or crackle when
taking off synthetic clothes
Discharge of electric charge that was accumulated by rubbing with insulting surfaces
2. What are electrostatics?
The branch of physics dealing with study of forces, study of fields and study of potentials
arising from the surface of bodies
3. Who is to credit for the discovery of attraction and repulsion (electric charge)
Thales of Miletus, Greece
4. What was the experiment that helped Thales of Miletus discovery attraction and repulsion?
When amber if rubbed with wool or silk, it attracts lighter objects
5. In what year did Thales of Miletus discover attraction?
600 BC
6. The term electricity is of Latin/Greek/Sanskrit?
Greek
7. The word electricity is derived from the Greek word?
“Elektron”
8. What does the word “elektron” mean?
Amber
9. What happens when 2 glass rods rubbed with silk and wool are brought close together?
They repel
10. What happens when the glass rod and wool are brought close together?
They attract
11. How many times of electric charge is present?
2
12. Bodies like the glass rod and wool are said to be ______?
Electrified
13. How does a body acquire electric charge?
By rubbing
14. Nature between 2 unlike charges is?
Attractive
15. Nature between 2 like charges is?
Repulsive
16. How is a body becoming charged on rubbing?
Transfer of charge through electrons
17. What is polarity of charge?
The property that differentiates 2 kinds of charges

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