Which simple experiment could be conducted to show an example of how lightning is created? a) rub a balloon so it picks up extra electrons from the sweater or your hair and becomes slightly negatively charged. b) rub a balloon filled with air on a wool sweater or on your hair. then hold it up to a wall. c) connect the positive pole of an electrical source to the negative pole, so you create a circuit. d) walk across a carpet, shuffling your feet and touching something made of metal.

In a thunderstorm, charge builds up on the water droplets or ice crystals in a cloud. thus, the charge can be considered to be distributed uniformly throughout the cloud. for the purposes of this problem, take the cloud to be a sphere of diameter 1.00 kilometer. the point of this problem is to estimate the maximum amount of charge that this cloud can contain, assuming that the charge builds up until the electric field at the surface of the cloud reaches the value at which the surrounding air breaks down. this breakdown means that the air becomes highly ionized, enabling it to conduct the charge from the cloud to the ground or another nearby cloud. the ionized air will then emit light due to the recombination of the electrons and atoms to form excited molecules that radiate light. in addition, the large current will heat up the air, resulting in its rapid expansion. these two phenomena account for the appearance of lightning and the sound of thunder. take the breakdown electric field of air to be eb=3.00ă—106n/c. part a estimate the total charge q on the cloud when the breakdown of the surrounding air is reached. express your answer numerically, to three significant figures, using ďµ0=8.85ă—10â’12c2/(nâ‹…m2) .

Four objects each with charge +2.0×10−7c are located at the corners of a square whose sides are 2.0 m long. part a what quantities can be determined using this information? check all that apply. the electric force on a charged object placed at the center of the square. the mass of each object. the total electric potential energy of the system consisting of the four charged objects. part b find the electric force on a charged object placed at the center of the square.

When using the scientist method, which step comes last?