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Salty water contains no free electrons but can conduct electricity. How?

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### Step-by-Step Solution: 1. **Understanding the Composition of Salty Water**: - Salty water is a solution that contains dissolved salt (sodium chloride, NaCl). When salt dissolves in water, it dissociates into its constituent ions: sodium ions (Na⁺) and chloride ions (Cl⁻). 2. **Absence of Free Electrons**: - Unlike metals, which conduct electricity through the movement of free electrons, salty water does not have free electrons. Instead, it relies on the movement of ions to conduct electricity. ...
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CENGAGE PHYSICS-STATIC ELECTRICITY-MANDATORY EXERCISE (Exercise Set I)
  1. What are insulators? Give examples.

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  2. Explain why conductors have large number of free electrons.

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  3. Salty water contains no free electrons but can conduct electricity. Ho...

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  4. Can free electrons move in and out of the body?

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  5. Can ions behave as charge carriers in metallic conductors?

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  6. What is an electroscope?

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  7. Name two different types of electroscopes.

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  8. What is the drawback of pith ball electroscopes?

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  9. Explain the setup of a gold leaf electroscope with a neat labeled diag...

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  10. What is the difference between charging by conduction and charging by ...

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  11. State the Coulomb's Law. Write down its mathematical form.

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  12. True or false: The columbic force of attraction or repulsion between t...

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  13. What is 1 coulomb?

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  14. What is a point charge? Can point charge actually exist?

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  15. How can we define intensity of electric field?

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  16. What is the convention for direction of an electric field?'

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  17. What are electric field lines?

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  18. How can we find the direction of electric field from electric field li...

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  19. How do electric field lines give us idea about electric field intensit...

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  20. Can electric field lines intersect each other? Why or why not?

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