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Electrostatics - the study of static charge / stationary charge
b. Two types charges, positive and negative charges
c. The SI units of charge is coulomb
1.0 C = 1000millicoulomb
1.0 C= 1000000 micro coulomb
d.A body become positively charged when electron are stripped off from the surface when rubbing take place.
A body becomes negatively charge if more electrons are obtained from other object on rubbing the two bodies together.
joseph rimiru answered the question on October 31, 2017 at 21:10
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