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SHRI BALAJI PUBLIC

SCHOOL

2024-2025
PHYSICS PROJECT FILE
CLASS:- XII ‘A’
TOPIC :- “To estimate the charge
induced on each one of the two
identical Styrofoam (or pith) balls
suspended in the vertical plane by
making use of Coulomb’s Law”

SUMITTED BY :- SUMITTED TO:-


NANDINI PANDEY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my deepest
gratitude to all those who have
helped me complete this school
project successfully.
I am extremely thankful to my
project guide, ‘, my Biology
teacher, for invaluable guidance,
encouragement and support
throughout this project. He
provided me direction, reviewed my
progress and results, and helped
me clarify my doubts. I sincerely
appreciate the time and effort he
put into supervising my project.
NANDINI PANDEY
XII A
CONTENT
To estimate the
charge induced on
each one of the two
identical Styrofoam
(or pith) balls
suspended in the
vertical plane by
making use of
Coulomb’s Law”
COULOMB AND
COULOMB’S
LAW
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (born


June 14, 1736, Angoulême, France—died
August 23, 1806, Paris) was a French
physicist best known for the formulation
of Coulomb’s law, which states that the force
between two electrical charges is proportional
to the product of the charges and inversely
proportional to the square of the distance
between them. The Coulomb force is one of the
principal forces involved in atomic reactions.
• he invented sensitive apparatus including
a torsion balance to measure the electrical
forces involved in Priestley’s law and published
his findings in 1785–89. He also established the
inverse square law of attraction and repulsion of
unlike and like magnetic poles, which became
the basis for the mathematical theory
of magnetic forces developed by Siméon-Denis
Poisson. He also did research on friction of
machinery, on windmills, and on the elasticity
of metal and silk fibres. The coulomb, a unit of
electric charge, was named in his honour.
COULOMB’S LAW
Coulomb's inverse-square law, or
simply Coulomb's law, is an
experimental law of physics that
calculates the amount of force between
two electrically charged particles at rest.
This electric force is conventionally called
the electrostatic force or Coulomb
force.He law states that the magnitude, or
absolute value, of the attractive or
repulsive electrostatic force between two
point charges is directly proportional to
the product of the magnitudes of their
charges and inversely proportional to the
square of the distance between them.
Coulomb also showed that oppositely
charged bodies attract according to an
inverse square law
Here, ke is a constant, q1 and q2 are
the quantities of each charge, and
the scalar r is the distance between
the charges.
The force is along the straight line
joining the two charges. If the
charges have the same sign, the
electrostatic force between them
makes them repel; if they have
different signs, the force between
them makes them attract.
OBJECTIVE:- “To estimate the charge
induced on each one of the two
identical Styrofoam (or pith) balls
suspended in the vertical plane by
making use of Coulomb’s Law”.

MATERIAL REQUIRED:-
Small size identical styrofoam balls
Physical balance or electronic balance
Meter Scale
Teflon thread
Stand
Glass rod (or plastic rod) Silk cloth (or
wool cloth)

THEORY:- The fundamental concept in


electrostatics is electrical charge. We are all
familiar with the fact that rubbing two
materials together — for example, a rubber
comb on cat fur — produces a “static” charge.
This process is called charging by friction.
Surprisingly, the exact physics of the process
of charging by friction is poorly
PROCEDURE:-
Weight the mass of each identical pith balls by
balance and note down it.
Tie the balls with two silk or cotton threads
and suspend at a point on a stand or a rigid
support. Measure the length of threads by
meter scale. The length of threads should be
equal. Note down the length
Rub the glass rod with silk cloth and touch
with both balls together so that the balls
acquired equal charge.
Suspend the balls freely and the balls stay
away a certain distance between the balls when
they become stationary. Note down the
distance.
Touch any one suspended ball with other
uncharged third ball and takes the third ball
away and repeat the step 4
Touch other suspended ball with other
uncharged fourth ball and takes the fourth ball
away and repeat the step 4.
OBSERVATION:-
Mass of each ball, (m) = 200 g.
Radius of each ball, (r) = 0.2cm.
Length of each thread, (l) = 100cm.

OBSERVATION TABLE:-

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