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This document contains a 9th grade physics unit test on static electricity with 7 multiple choice questions. The test covers topics like charging by combing hair, charge carriers in metals, the interaction between like and unlike charges, and diagrams depicting charge distributions in conducting objects near charged balloons or spheres.

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Unit Test

This document contains a 9th grade physics unit test on static electricity with 7 multiple choice questions. The test covers topics like charging by combing hair, charge carriers in metals, the interaction between like and unlike charges, and diagrams depicting charge distributions in conducting objects near charged balloons or spheres.

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Islamiyya School

Unit test Static Electricity

Physics

Grade: 9
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Choose the correct answer from A, B, C and D and underline it.
1. If you comb your hair and the comb becomes positively charged, then your hair becomes
A positively charged
B
negatively charged
C uncharged
D
2. Charge carriers in a metal are electrons rather than protons. This is due to the fact that electrons are
A loosely bound
B
lighter
C far from a nucleus
D
all of the above
3. Two like charges
A attract each other
C neutralize each other

B
D

repel each other


have no effect on each other

4. A positive test charge is placed between an electron, e, and a proton, p, as shown in the
diagram below.
When the test charge is released, it will move toward

5. Two neutral conducting pop cans are touching each other. A positively charged balloon is brought near one
of the cans as shown below.

The cans are separated while the balloon is nearby, as shown. After separation can X is
A positively charged
B
negatively charged
C neutral
D
impossible to tell
6. A positively charged balloon is brought near a neutral conducting sphere as shown below. While the balloon
is near, the sphere is touched (grounded).

At this point, there is a movement of electrons. Electrons move


A into the sphere from the ground (hand)
B
out of the sphere into the ground (hand)
C
into the sphere from the balloon
D out of the sphere into the balloon
7. A negatively charged balloon is brought near a neutral conducting sphere as shown below. Which one of the
diagrams correctly shows the distribution of charge in the sphere?

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Answer all Questions


1.

Combing dry hair with a plastic comb makes the comb become positively charged.
a) Why does the comb become positively charged?

(2 mark)

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b) Two objects are drawn in each of the boxes A, B and C. Each object is positively charged, negatively charged
or uncharged.
Write under each box whether the two objects will:
repel each other; attract each other; do nothing.

(3 marks)

Identify the type of charge on objects A-D based on the electric field lines shown.

A .
4

B ..

(4 marks)

D .

The following sentences describe how a photocopier uses static electricity to make a photocopy.
The sentences are in the wrong order.
A

The charge left on the plate has the same pattern as the black parts of the original page.

The paper is heated to make the powder stick; this is now a photocopy of the original page.

C
D

The copying plate is given a charge. An image of the page to be copied is projected onto the
plate.
The charged parts of the plate attract particles of black powder.

The black powder is transferred from the plate onto a piece of paper.

Where light hits the plate, the charge leaks away.


Arrange the sentences in the right order. Start with sentence C and end with sentence B.

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(4 marks)

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