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Charging of Insulators

Since charge cannot flow through insulators, neither conduction nor induction can be used to charge, insulators, so in order to charge an insulator friction is used. Whenever an insulator is rubbed against a body exchange of electrons takes place between the two. This results in appearance of equal and opposite charges on the insulator and the other body. Thus the insulator is charged.
For example rubbing of plastic with fur, silk with glass causes charging of these things.
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Electric Field of a Line Charge
Last modified on:3 years agoReading Time:3MinutesElectric Field of a Line Charge Positive charge q is distributed uniformly along a line with length 2a, lying along the y-axis between y=–a and y=+a. We are here interested in finding the electric field at point P on the x-axis. Derivation of electric field due to a line charge: Thus,…
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Electric Field Lines
Last modified on:3 years agoReading Time:5MinutesElectric Field Lines Electric charges create an electric field in the space surrounding them. It is useful to have a kind of “map” that gives the direction and indicates the strength of the field at various places. Field lines, a concept introduced by Michael Faraday, provide us with an easy way…
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Human Ear
Last modified on:4 years agoReading Time:3MinutesHuman Ear The human ear, like that of other mammals, contains sense organs that serve two quite different functions: that of hearing and that of head and eye movements. Anatomically, the ear has three distinguishable parts: the outer, middle, and inner ear. How Human Ear Works? Different sounds produced in our surroundings are collected by…
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Case Study Questions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 13 Surface Area and Volume
Last modified on:4 years agoReading Time:3MinutesCase Study Questions Question 1: Nakul was doing an experiment to find the radius r of a ball. For this he took a cylindrical container with radius R = 7 cm and height 10 cm. He filled the container almost half by water as shown in the figure-1. Now he dropped…
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Case Study Questions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 10 Circles
Last modified on:2 years agoReading Time:3MinutesCase Study Questions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 10 Circles Case Study Questions Question 1: Ankit visited in a mall with his father. He sees that three shops are situated at P, Q, R as shown in the figure from where they have to purchase things according to their need. Distance…
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Case Study Questions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 9 Quadrilaterals
Last modified on:4 years agoReading Time:3MinutesCase Study Questions Question 1: After summervacation, Manit’s class teacher organised a small MCQ quiz, based on the properties of quadrilaterals. During quiz, she asks different questions to students. Some of the questions are listed below. (i) Which of the following is/are the condition(s) for ABCD to be a quadrilateral?(a) The…
