TESTABLE QUESTIONS:
How can you tell if an object is charged? How can you tell if an object is positively or negatively charged? How can you tell if an electroscope is positively or negatively charged?
HYPOTHESIS:
If you bring an object close to the knob of the electroscope and the two leaves of the electroscope move apart, your object is charged. If you bring an object close to the knob of the electroscope and nothing happens to the leaves of the electroscope, your object is not charged or is currently neutral.
The electroscope itself will be neutral. When you bring a charged object close, the electrons will start to move around and change their positions. If a positively charged object is brought close to the knob of the electroscope, the electrons would want to be close to it and since positives and negatives attract each other, and will move to the top (knob) of the electroscope. This will leave a positive charge in the leaves of the electroscope. Since like charges repel, the two leaves will move apart. If the object is negatively charged, the electrons will move away from the object near the knob of the electroscope and will move to the leaves of the electroscope. The leaves are left with a negative charge, and so the leaves will repel and move apart.
You can tell if an object is positively or negatively charged by looking at a Triboelectric Series Chart. It shows that if you rub an object from the top of the chart with an object from the bottom of the chart, the object from the top will lose its electrons to the object from the bottom of the chart. The object from the bottom of the chart will become negatively charged and the object from the top of the chart will become positively charged. The objects in the bottom ...
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