MERYL DEVINE GRACE F.

BERMUDEZ 10-12-2021
GRADE10-RUTHERFORD

ACTIVITY SHEET NO. 1

ELECTROSTATICS: AN INTRODUCTION

Answer the following questions. Substantiate your answer in not more than five
sentences.

Topic: THE ORIGIN OF ELECTRICITY

1. Discuss the origin of electricity.
• Electricity is a secondary energy source. This means that is not
available in nature for us to gather and use.

2. How does electrostatics govern charges at rest?

• Electrostatics is the study of charges, or charged bodies, at rest. ... If
the conductor is then connected to a reservoir of electrons, such as
the ground, electrons will flow onto or off of the conductor with the
result that it acquires a charge opposite to that of the charged object
brought near it.
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Topic: STATIC ELECTRICITY: ELECTRIC CHARGE AND ITS CONSERVATION

1. Why does a shirt or blouse taken from a clothes dryer sometimes cling in your
body?
• A positively charged rod is brought close to a neutral piece of paper,
which it attracts.

2. Why does a plastic ruler that has been rubbed with a cloth have the ability to pick
up small pieces of paper? Why is this difficult to do on a humid day?
• The rulers negative charge polarizes the charge on the paper, so
basically it attracts the positive charges and repel the electrons.
Enough electric force is created and lifts the paper!

3. State the Conservation of Electric Charge.

• Law of conservation of charge says that the net charge of an isolated
system will always remain constant. This means that any system that
is not exchanging mass or energy with its surroundings will never
have a different total charge at any two times.
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Topic: THEORIES ON ELECTRIC CHARGES

1. Compare and contrast the three early theories on electric charges.
• The three electric charges are protons, electrons, and neutrons.
Protons have a positive charge. Electrons have a negative charge.
MERYL DEVINE GRACE F. BERMUDEZ 10-12-2021
GRADE10-RUTHERFORD

The charge on the proton and electron are exactly the same size but
opposite. Neutrons have no charge.

2. Complete the table by filling in the missing information.

Location Mass Charge

Proton Inside nucleus 1.67252 x 10 -27 kg Positive
Neutron Inside nucleus 1.67495 x 10 -27 kg Neutral
Electron Outside nucleus 9.10950 x -34 kg Negative

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