The Total solution for NCERT class 6-12
(a) Explainthe meaning of the statement ‘electric charge of a body is quantised’.
(b) Whycan one ignore quantisation of electric charge when dealing with macroscopici.e., large scale charges?
(a) Electriccharge of a body is quantized. This means that only integral (1, 2, …., n)number of electrons can be transferred from one body to the other. Charges arenot transferred in fraction. Hence, a body possesses total charge only inintegral multiples of electric charge.