Question

Define following terms terms

a. Electric Charge

b. Electric Potential

c. Electric Current

d. Quantisation of charge​

Answer 1

a) Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience b) force when placed in an electromagnetic field.

b) An electric potential is the amount of work needed to move a unit of charge from a reference point to a specific point inside the field without producing an acceleration.

c) An electric current is the rate of flow of electric charge past a point or region. An electric current is said to exist when there is a net flow of electric charge through a region

d) Quantization of charge means that when we say something has a given charge, we mean that that is how many times the charge of a single electron it has.