Why does a positively or negatively charged object have multiples of the fundamental charge?
What is the fundamental charge?
Why does a positively or negatively charged object have multiples of the fundamental charge?
What is the fundamental charge?
Answer:
Charge is the fundamental property of forms of matter that exhibit electrostatic attraction or repulsion in the presence of other matter. Electric charge is a characteristic property of many subatomic particles. The charges of free-standing particles are integer multiples of the elementary charge e; we say that electric charge is quantized.
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