Grade 12Electric Current

Define conservation of electic charge and quantization of electric charge

KUMAR

10 Years agoGrade 12

2 Answers

pralay

10 Years ago

Irrespective of any process taking place, the algebraic sum of electric charges in an
electrically isolated system always remains constant. This statement is called the law of
conservation of charge.
Charge quantization, then, means that charge cannot take any arbitrary values, but only values that are integral multiples of the fundamental charge. For example, in a hydrogen ion, we usually denote it with a positive sign to indicate that there's one proton more than there are electrons.

SHANMUKESHWAR

10 Years ago

In physics, charge conservation is the principle that electric charge can neither be created nor destroyed. The net quantity of electric charge, the amount of positive charge minus the amount of negative charge in the universe, is always conserved.

Quantization of charge means that when we say something has a given charge, we mean that that is how many times the charge of a single electron it has. Because all charges are associated with a whole electron, this is possible. Let's talk about electrons and quantization of electric charge.