Question

When a balloon is rubbed with human hair, the balloon acquires an excess static charge. This implies that some materials A) conduct electricity, while others do not. B) can accept protons more easily than others. C) can give up electrons more readily than others. correct D) repel negative objects, and others attract them.

Answer 1

When a balloon is rubbed with human hair, the balloon acquires an excess static charge. This implies that some materials can give up electrons more readily than others.

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

We know that charges can neither be created nor be destroyed by law of conservation of charges. So when we rub two objects, it is natural to have a transfer of charges. But the charges which get transferred may be negligible in most of the cases leading to no significant observations.

But for some materials, like when we rubbed a balloon with human hair, we observed clouding of excess static charge on the balloon surface. This indicates that hair can easily give up electrons to balloon leading to clouding of excess static charge on it.