Part 2 – Fur, Cloth, and Bag If you figured out the answer to Question 3 , then
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Part 2 – Fur, Cloth, and Bag If you figured out the answer to Question 3, then your answer implies that the fur (or cloth or bag) should also be charged. However, it should be charged oppositely to the rod. For combinations in your chart that gave you a result of A LOT, recharge the rod and see if whatever you rubbed the rod with will cause the leaves to separate. If they separate then circle the A LOT in your chart. Note: Depending on the weather, this might not work very well.
Question 4 Explain why the fur (or whatever) is oppositely charged to the rod after you rub the fur (or whatever) with the rod.
Question 5 Why should the weather affect how this experiment works? Hint: think humidity.
Explanation / Answer
4)The fur gets appositely charged due to conduction. The rod was intially poitively charges, when its rubbed with the fur, the fur acquires an equal amount of negtaive charge as that of rod.The rod has an excess of positive charge, and shortage of electrons, The proton(positive charge0 is tightly bounded to the nucleus of an atom while the negative charged electron free to move, so the proton attracts the moving free electrons towards itself and and hence the fur gets negatively charged. The law of conservation of charge is followed here this way
+q + -q = 0
5)Humid air has free ions roaming around, so it effects the conduction/induction of charges, due to the fresence of free charge in the air iself.