Professional Documents
Culture Documents
SET ONE:
i. Electrostatic induction.
ii. Electrification.
ii) Explain how a body may be charged and remain at zero potential.
ii) What are the precautions when using a gold leaf electroscope?
i) Positively.
ii) Negatively by induction.
d) Briefly explain how a gold leaf electroscope can be used to perform the
following tasks;
Charge distribution.
4) Describe an experiment to show the distribution of charge on the
following shape conductors.
i) Pear shaped.
ii) Spherical conductor.
iii) Hollow conductor.
i) Lightening.
ii) Lightening conductor.
c) The belt of a van der Graff generator is of width 20cm and travels at a
speed of 10ms-1. The charge density on the belt is 1.510-4cm-2. The
generator is connected to a resistor of 90M. Determine;