PROPERTIES OF ELECTRIC CHARGE

Electricity of Class 9

PROPERTIES OF ELECTRIC CHARGE

The unit of electric charge is coulomb and 1 coulomb is the charge contained in 6 × 10–18 electrons. Unlike (opposite) charges attract each and like (similar) charges repel each other. A law stating that like charges repels and opposite charges attract, with a force proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

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