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Class 11th Physics 3
Class 11th Physics 3
where
the
n is
any integer,
positive or negative. This and Fields
charge that an electron basic unit of
on an
electron is taken to beor proton carries. By charge is
written as -e and that convention, the
negative; therefore charge on an charge
on a
The fact that proton as +e. electron is
as
quantisation electricehargeis
charge. There areatways
largean-integratmutuple
Where of
certain physical a of eis termed
number of situations
suggested quantities are quantised. The
in
was first
by the experimental laws physics
English experimentalist of quantisation of charge
Millikan in 1912. Faraday. It was electrolysis discovered by
In the experimentally demonstrated by
International
coulomb and is denoted System (SI) of Units, unit of a
The unit of the electricby the symbol C. A coulomb ischarge
defined
is called a
current
subsequent chapter. In terms which
of this
you are
going learn in
to
in terms