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    The document is a worksheet about static electricity and concepts related to charge, conduction, insulation, and magnetism. It contains 6 multiple choice or short answer questions: 1) A plastic comb was able to attract bits of paper after being rubbed on hair, due to static electricity building up a charge on the comb through triboelectric effects. 2) Metals conduct electricity because their valence electrons are loosely bound and can flow, while rubber is an insulator because its molecules are non-polar and electrons cannot easily move between them. This difference allows metals to safely conduct electricity for wiring. 3) The questions assess understanding of fundamental electrical concepts through diagrams and descriptions.

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    The document is a worksheet about static electricity and concepts related to charge, conduction, insulation, and magnetism. It contains 6 multiple choice or short answer questions: 1) A plastic comb was able to attract bits of paper after being rubbed on hair, due to static electricity building up a charge on the comb through triboelectric effects. 2) Metals conduct electricity because their valence electrons are loosely bound and can flow, while rubber is an insulator because its molecules are non-polar and electrons cannot easily move between them. This difference allows metals to safely conduct electricity for wiring. 3) The questions assess understanding of fundamental electrical concepts through diagrams and descriptions.

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    Static Electricty - Worksheet

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    The document is a worksheet about static electricity and concepts related to charge, conduction, insulation, and magnetism. It contains 6 multiple choice or short answer questions: 1) A plastic comb was able to attract bits of paper after being rubbed on hair, due to static electricity building up a charge on the comb through triboelectric effects. 2) Metals conduct electricity because their valence electrons are loosely bound and can flow, while rubber is an insulator because its molecules are non-polar and electrons cannot easily move between them. This difference allows metals to safely conduct electricity for wiring. 3) The questions assess understanding of fundamental electrical concepts through diagrams and descriptions.

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    WORKSHEET Name:

    Static electricity
    1 A plastic comb was able to attract small bits of paper after being run through hair several
    times. What made this possible?

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    2 Why do metals conduct electricity while rubber does not? How can this difference be useful
    when making electrical wiring?

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    3 Identify the charge on the following:

    (a) proton

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    (b) electron

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    (c) neutron

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    (a) In the diagram below, a charged rod is brought close to a metal sphere. What will happen
    to the sphere after some time? Explain how this happens.

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    (b) What might happen if charges continue to build up at one end of a pole? What technique
    can be used to avoid it?

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    5 When does air act like an insulator? When does it act like a conductor?

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    6 Draw arrows to indicate the direction of magnetic field in the diagrams below:

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    - -
    - -
    - - + -

    - -
    - - -

    [2]

    [Total: 20]

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