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Unit 1 Chapter 1: ELECTRIC CHARGES
& FIELDS
Atomic Energy Education Society, Mumbai
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Module 1
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Dear students, you must be familiar with the following pictures……
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1. ELECTRIC CHARGES & FIELDS
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1.1: Electrostatics-Introduction • Static means anything that does not move or
change with time.
• Electrostatics deals with the study of forces, fields and potentials arising from static charges.
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1.2: ELECTRIC CHARGES
We cannot imagine our life with out electricity…and electricity is nothing but moving charges ..Our first two chapters deal with static charges and third onwards moving charges….
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Atom- Nucleus-Protons- Neutrons-electrons-nucleons-charge of nucleus and atom- ionisation – ions : +ve and –ve ions…..
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ELECTRIC CHARGE Historically the credit of discovery of the fact that amber rubbed with wool or silk cloth attracts light objects goes to Thales of Miletus, Greece, around 600 BC. The name electricity is coined from the Greek word elektron meaning amber. While rubbing, amber becomes –ve and silk acquires +ve charge…
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Electrification • Two bodies like glass or plastic rods, silk, fur and pith balls are
electrified while rubbing. • They acquire an electric charge on rubbing. • There are two kinds of electrification +ve and –ve • (i) like charges repel and • (ii) unlike charges attract each other.
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Electrification
• The experiments also demonstrated that the charges are transferred from the rods to the pith balls on contact. It is said that the pith balls are electrified or are charged by contact.
• The property which differentiates the two kinds of charges is called the polarity of charge.
• Interactive animation on simple electrostatic experiments:
http://demoweb.physics.ucla.edu/content/100-simple-electrostaticexperiments
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Electrification
• The charges were named as positive and negative by the American scientist Benjamin Franklin.
• We know that when we add a positive number to a negative number of the same magnitude, the sum is zero.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Electricity & Magnetism • In olden days, electricity and
magnetism were treated as separate subjects. Electricity dealt with charges on glass rods, cat’s fur, batteries, lightning, etc., while magnetism described interactions of magnets, iron filings, compass needles, etc.
• In 1820 Danish scientist Hans Christian Oersted found that a compass needle is deflected by passing an electric current through a wire placed near the needle.
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Hans Christian Oersted
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Electricity & Magnetism André-Marie Ampère and Michael Faraday supported this observation by saying that electric charges in motion produce magnetic fields and moving magnets generate electricity
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André-Marie Ampère Michael Faraday
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Electromagetic Force • The unification was achieved when the Scottish physicist
James Clerk Maxwell and the Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz put forward a theory where they showed the interdependence of these two subjects. This field is called Electromagnetism.
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James Clerk Maxwell Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
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Electromagetic Force • Most of the phenomena occurring around us can be
described under electromagnetism. • Virtually every force that we can think of like friction,
chemical force between atoms holding the matter together, and even the forces describing processes occurring in cells of living organisms, have its origin in electromagnetic force.
• Electromagnetic force is one of the fundamental forces of nature.
• The other fundamental forces are gravitational force, strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force. (Class XI)
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Gold-leaf Electroscope
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It consists of a vertical metal rod housed in a box, with two thin gold leaves / aluminium foil attached to its bottom end. When a charged object touches the metal knob at the top of the rod, charge flows on to the leaves and they diverge. The degree of divergence is an indicator of the amount of charge. (Try to make one such electroscope with available materials at home)
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Thank you
Bibliography
• NCERT TEXT BOOK- CLASS XII-PHYSICS
• Previous Years CBSE Board Question Papers
• www.wikipedia.in Rajeev G.L.
PGT(SS)
AECS - Kudankulam
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