If you had several identical metal balls mounted on insulating stands, explain how you could obtain a quantity of charge on one ball that is four times as large as the quantity on another ball.
2007-02-26 10:20:22 · 1 answers · asked by bibun 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
1. Ground five balls. This puts zero charge on all five balls. Label them A, B, C, D, E.
2. Zap a charge of any quantity to ball 'A'.
3. Touch ball 'A' to ball 'B'.
Now both ball A and B have equal charges.
4. Touch balls B, and C together, then D, and also E. When they are all together, they share the same charge. You can now separate them and the charge will remain equal.
Now you have divided the charge on ball B equally among four balls, B, C, D, and E.
Ball A now has four times the charge of balls B through E.
2007-02-28 06:42:59 · answer #1 · answered by vrrJT3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋