Question

Jeff puts on a leather jacket over his sweater. The sweater becomes negatively charged. Which statements about Jeff’s situation are true?

Answer 1

The sweater has a tendency to attract electrons.

The leather jacket has a lower tendency to attract electrons than the sweater.

Explanation:

The sweater and the leather jackets are made up of distinct fabrics that based on their minutest particles called an atom.

An atom is made up of sub-atomic particles of protons, neutrons and electrons.

• Electrons occupies the bulk volume of the atom and they are easily lost in atoms that are big. They are negatively charged.
• Protons are positively charged and are very difficult to lose. They occupy the tiny nucleus with neutrons.
• A body that becomes negatively charged will be said to have a hihg tendency to attract electrons. Normally atoms are electrically neutral. When additional electrons are added to them, they become negatively charged.
• In this case, the sweater has a high affinity for electrons and it will attract the ones on the leather jacket.
• The leather jacket has a low tendency to attract electrons than the sweater and it will lose some of its electrons to the sweater.

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