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hjlf
3 years ago
5

A housefly walking across a clean surface can accumulate a significant positive or negative charge. In one experiment, the large

st positive charge observed was +73 pCpC. A typical housefly has a mass of 12 mgmg.How many electrons does it lose to the surface it is walking across?
Physics
1 answer:
Lisa [10]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

4.56*10^8 \text{    electrons.}

Explanation:

Since the fly accumulated a positive charge of +73pC, it must have lost an equal number of negative charge of -73pC to the surface (because the housefly was neutral to begin with).

Therefore, to answer our question we have to ask ourselves <em>how many electrons combine to make -73pC of charge? </em>

The answer is since one electron carries a charge of -1.6*10^{-19}C, the number n of electrons that make up -73pC (-73*10^{-12}C) are

n= \dfrac{-73*10^{-12}C}{-1.6*10^{-19}C/e}

\boxed{n= 4.56*10^8e.}

Thus, the housefly lost about 456 million electrons to the surface!

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