Chapter 14: Q27P (page 580)
You rub a plastic comb through your hair and it now carries a charge of . What is the charge on your hair?
Chapter 14: Q27P (page 580)
You rub a plastic comb through your hair and it now carries a charge of . What is the charge on your hair?
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Get started for freeA student asked, "Since the positive nucleus of the atom is hidden inside a negative electron cloud, why doesn't all matter appear to be negatively charged?" Explain to the student the flaw in this reasoning.
If the distance between a neutral atom and a point charge is doubled, by what factor does the force on the atom by the point charge change?
Explain briefly why the attraction between a point charge and a dipole has a different distance dependence for induced dipoles ( ) than for permanent dipoles ( ). (You need not explain either situation in full detail: just explain why there is this difference in their behavior.)
You are wearing shoes with thick rubber soles. You briefly touch a negatively charged metal sphere. Afterward, the sphere seems to have little or no charge. Why? Explain in detail.
Criticize the following statement: "Since an atom's electron cloud is spherical, the effect of the electrons cancels the effect of the nucleus, so a neutral atom can't interact with a charged object." ("Criticize" means to explain why the given statement is inadequate or incorrect, as well as to correct it.)
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