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An ebonite rod rubbed with fur and a glass rod rubbed with silk cloth are brought nearer to each other. Then

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  1. they will attract each other

  2. they will repel each other

  3. nothing will happen to them

  4. they will get heated up

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

When an ebonite rod is rubbed with fur, the ebonite rod gets negatively charged and the fur becomes positively charged. Whereas when a glass rod is rubbed with silk cloth, the glass rod becomes positively charged and the silk cloth becomes negatively charged.

Now as we know that unlike charges attract each other, thus the glass rod and the ebonite rod will attract each other as they have opposite charges.

Which of the following statement is NOT true?

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  1. Lightning and spark from woolen clothing are essentially the same phenomena.

  2. When you rub a plastic scale on your dry hair, it acquires a charge.

  3. Charge acquired by a glass rod when it is rubbed with silk is called as negative charge.

  4. Static charges are called so, because they do not move by themselves

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

When a glass rod is rubbed with silk then it gets net positive charge whereas silk gets negatively charges by electron transfer through friction.When a glass rod is rubbed with silk, it acquires a positive charge whereas silk acquires a negative charge. So, statement is not True.

The electric charge developed on glass rod rubbed with silk cloth is different from the charge developed on ebonite rod rubbed with fur.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

When glass rod is rubbed with silk cloth, it acquires positive charge.
But when ebonite rod is rubbed with fur, the rod gets negatively charged.
So, charge developed on glass rod rubbed with silk is different from charge developed on ebonite rod rubbed with fur. Hence this statement is true.

The electricity developed on objects, when they are rubbed with each other is called:

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  1. Frictional potential

  2. Frictional electricity

  3. Static electricity

  4. Static potential

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The electricity developed on the objects when they are rubbed with each other is called Frictional electricity. On rubbing two objects, both materials get electrified due to friction produced while rubbing them. One of the body acquires negative charge and other acquires positive charge.

A woolen cloth when rubbed against plastic object acquires ______ charge.

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  1. Sometimes positive and sometimes negative

  2. Negative

  3. Positive

  4. None of the these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

When woolen cloth is rubbed against the plastic, both wood and plastic get electrified due to friction produced while rubbing. So, plastic has greater electron affinity (ability to attract electrons) as compared to wool, therefore, plastic acquires negative charge and wool acquires positive charge.

A glass rod when rubbed with silk cloth, acquires a charge of $1.6\times 10^{-11}C$, then the charge on silk cloth will be:

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  1. $-3.2\times 10^{-11}C$

  2. $-2.4\times 10^{-13}C$

  3. $-1.6\times 10^{-13}C$

  4. $-1.6\times 10^{-11}C$

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

When glass rod is rubbed with silk, electrons move from rod to silk.


Since silk gets electrons it becomes negatively charged and the number of electrons gained by silk is same as that lost by rod.

Hence magnitude of charge on silk is same as that on rod.

Hence charge on silk$=-1.6\times 10^{-11}C$ 

Answer-(D)

When a polythene piece is rubbed with wool, it acquires negative charge. 

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

When a polythene piece is rubbed with wool, both gets electrified due to charging by friction. Since polythene has greater electron affinity (ability to attract electrons) as compared to wool. So, polythene piece attracts electron and acquires negative charge and wool acquires positive charge.

Which statement best explains why a rubber rod becomes negatively charged when rubbed with fur?

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  1. The rubber that the rod is made of is a better insulator than fur.

  2. The fur is a better insulator than the rubber.

  3. Molecules in the rubber rod have a stronger attraction for electrons than the molecules in the fur.

  4. Molecules in the fur have a stronger attraction for electrons than the molecules in the rubber rod.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

During charging by rubbing (or by friction) process, the material that becomes negatively charged does so because it likes electrons more than the material with which it is rubbed. It means molecules in rubber rod have a stronger attraction for electrons than the molecules in the fur. 

During a physics lab, a plastic strip was rubbed with cotton and became positively charged. The correct explanation for why the plastic strip becomes positively charged is that

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  1. the plastic strip acquired extra protons from the cotton.

  2. the plastic strip acquired extra protons during the charging process.

  3. protons were created as the result of the charging process.

  4. the plastic strip lost electrons to the cotton during the charging process.

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Plastic strip when rubbed with cotton got charged due to charging by friction.
The plastic strip and cotton acquires opposite charges. This is because plastic strip acquires positive charges and loses electrons to cotton during the process, and therefore cotton acquires the negative charge.

During charging by friction, 

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  1. charge is created.

  2. charged is destroyed.

  3. charge is conserved.

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

When two objects rub each other, then due to friction, one object's electrons gets transfered to the other one.

The one which loses electrons becomes positively charged and the other, negative.
Thus charging by friction is only due to transfer of electrons. No charge gets created or destroyed in this process.