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The document discusses the principles of electrostatics, focusing on electric charges, their forces, and interactions with materials. It includes practical activities to demonstrate charging processes through rubbing and induction using common items like a pen and a comb. The document encourages experimentation and observation to understand the behavior of charged objects and the role of electron transfer in these processes.

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Electric-Charge

The document discusses the principles of electrostatics, focusing on electric charges, their forces, and interactions with materials. It includes practical activities to demonstrate charging processes through rubbing and induction using common items like a pen and a comb. The document encourages experimentation and observation to understand the behavior of charged objects and the role of electron transfer in these processes.

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Electric Charge

Electrostatics includes the concepts of electric charges, the forces between them, and their behaviors in
materials. What is referred to as at rest in electrostatics is the body that carries electrons which are the prime
movers of electricity. The negatively charged electrons are in endless motion in matter and affect the behavior
of matter through electric charge.
ELECTRICAL CHARGES, FORCES, AND MATTER

To have a first-hand experience of electrostatics, get a piece of paper and make tiny bits out of it. Then, get
your pen and rub it against your shirt. After doing so, place your pen near the tiny bits of paper and observe
what happens. Do you know the reason behind what you have observed? Well, it is just electrostatics at work!
As you rub your pen against your shirt, the pen becomes a charged object, hence, it exerted a strange
influence upon the tiny bits of paper. This influence known as the electric force caused the pen to attract the
tiny bits of paper, which are still neutral. This electric force is an example of a non-contact force which means
that it will still be present even when the charged pen will be placed at some distance away from the bits of
paper. Moreover, this electric force can be exerted by a charged object upon other objects --- may they be
Charge or uncharged (neutral).
INSTRUCTION: Using your knowledge on charging process, analyze and answer
the following question in a whole sheet of paper

ACTIVITY 1
ACTIVITY 2:
Let’s Do Physics! Hello, young physicist! You have been doing great so far, and it seems
that you are still up for more challenges!
Instruction: You will be performing simple experiments that will help you have a clearer
understanding about the two charging processes --- rubbing and induction. Document
every process while doing experiments
Materials: comb, tiny bits of paper, water source (faucet), cellphone
Procedures:
1) Charge the comb by running it through your hair. This works well when the weather is
dry.
2) Place the comb near the tiny bits of paper. Observe what happens.
3) Repeat step 1.
4) This time place the charged comb near a thin stream of running water from a faucet.
Observe what happens.

Answer the following. Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper. 1) Attached the
picture and describe what you have observed when the charged comb was placed near
the tiny bits of paper.
2) Attached the picture and describe what you have observed when the charged
comb was placed near a thin stream of running water from a faucet.
3) What type of charging process took place between: a. the comb and your hair? b.
the charged comb and the tiny bits of paper? c. the charged comb and a thin stream of
running water from a faucet?
4) What is the role of electron transfer in the charging process that took place
between the comb and your hair? 5) Explain the following charging processes: (a)
rubbing and (b) induction.

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