Electrostatics: Organisation of the parts of an atom has electrons orbiting a large central nucleus of nucleons(neutrons and protons)
If there is an unbalanced number of protons(positive carriers) compared to electrons (negative carriers) then the ion is called a charged particle
Charging by friction
If you rub 2 objects together, one object is uncharged because it has equal amounts of positive and negative charges
Some electrons move from one object to the other
Now one object is more positively charged than the other
Overall effect of these charged particles produces a force
If the electrical charge is “held” on the surface of a material it is referred to as static electricity
At the moment the electricity is still
This charge cannot move through out the material if it is an insulator
Charge objects exert an electrical force
Similar charges repel each other and opposite charges attract
Electrical static charge can be produced in 2 ways: by friction and induction
The attractive forces which keep the electrons (negative) close to the nucleus(positive) can easily be overcome
The electrons have relatively low mass compared to the nucleons and therefore it is only ever the electrons which can be transferred throughout a material or from one material to another