How do the bodies get electric charge on rubbing?
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This is a familiar electric phenomenon in which friction transfers charged particles from one body to another.
If two objects are rubbed together, especially if the objects are insulators and surrounding air is dry, the objects acquire equal and opposite charges and an attractive force develops between them.
Electric Charge is an intrinsic property of the elementary particles of matter which gives rise to electric force between various objects.
The electricity generated on rubbing is known as frictional energy.
We know that opposite charges attract each other.
A body is always neutral having equal number of positive & negative charges.
When we rub a neutral body to another body the charge gets distributed to another body.
The +ve charges attracts all the -ve changes.
So , all the charges get induced from one body to another , then remove the other body.
The rest of the charges get drained outside the body .
All the +ve & -ve charges gets distributed over the body & make it charged .
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