NCERT Exercise 1.4 - Electric Charges and Fields
Question: (a) Explain the meaning of the statement 'electric charge of a body is quantised'. (b) Why can one ignore quantisation of electric charge when dealing with macroscopic i.e., large scale charges?
Answer: (a) **Quantisation of charge** means total charge on any body is always an integral multiple of the elementary charge e = 1.6 × 10⁻¹⁹ C: q = ne (n = 0, ±1, ±2, ...). (b) At macroscopic scale, charg...
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