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A charged rod attracts bits of dry paper, which after touching the rod often jump away from it rapidly, Explain

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When comb is run in dry hair, it gets charged due to friction. Now when it is brought close to the piece of paper it will attract because there is a force of attraction between a charged and a neutral body. Now after the paper is touching the comb, the charge of comb is shared by the paper hence the comb as weil as the paper have similar charge now. Since similar charges repel, so the piece of paper gets repelled now in the form of violent jump.
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