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Explain the working principle of an electroscope with the help of suitable diagram.​

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Answered by jmi5piy7371020
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A gold-leaf electroscope is used for detecting electric charge present in a body and identifying its polarity. Its operation is based on the principle of electrostatic induction and like charge repulsion.

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Answered by surajdarade754
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The electroscope is an early scientific instrument used to detect the presence of electric charge on a body. It detects charge by the movement of a test object due to the Coulomb electrostatic force on it. The amount of charge on an object is proportional to its voltage. The accumulation of enough charge to detect with an electroscope requires hundreds or thousands of volts, so electroscopes are used with high voltage sources such as static electricity and electrostatic machines. An electroscope can only give a rough indication of the quantity of charge; an instrument that measures electric charge quantitatively is called an electrometer.

Gilbert's versorium

The electroscope was the first electrical measuring instrument. The first electroscope was a pivoted needle (called the versorium), invented by British physician William Gilbert around 1600.[1][2] The pith-ball electroscope and the gold-leaf electroscope are two classical types of electroscope[2] that are still used in physics education to demonstrate the principles of electrostatics. A type of electroscope is also used in the quartz fiber radiation dosimeter. Electroscopes were used by the Austrian scientist Victor Hess in the discovery of cosmic rays.

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