Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Tiffany on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 2:58pm.

A plastic rod is rubbed against a wool shirt,
thereby acquiring a charge of −4.9 µC.
How many electrons are transferred from
the wool shirt to the plastic rod? The elemental charge is 1.6 × 10^-19C.

Physics - bobpursley, Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 3:20pm
have you considered dividing the total charge by the charge on an electron?

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