Question

By convention, the charge on a glass rod that has been rubbed with silk is called

Answer 1

The core has positive charge, the electrons have negative charge. When you are rubbing the glass rod with the silk cloth, electrons are stripped away from the atoms in the glass and transferred to thesilk cloth. This leaves the glass rod with more positive than negative charge, so you get a net positive charge.

Answer 2

Explanation:

When the charge on a glass rod that has been rubbed with Silk is called charging by rubbing.

PROCESS:

When two bodies are rubbed together some electron from one body pass to the other body.

The positive and negative charge appear in equal amount simultaneously due to the transfer of electrons .

The body that denote the electron become positively charged while that which receives electron become negatively charged.

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