Question

3. Suppose that you have an electrically charged stick. If you divide the stick in half, each half will have half the original charge. If you split each of these halves, each piece will have a quarter of the original charge. Can you keep on dividing the charge in this manner forever? If not, why not?

Answer 1

No, you can't keep on dividing the charge forever.

Step-by-step explanation:

No, you can't keep on dividing the charge in that manner forever because the total charge of the stick is an integer multiples of individual units known as an elementary charge, which is the electron (e) charge (e = 1.602x10⁻¹⁹C).

Therefore the limit of the division of the original charge will be the electron charge since it is the smallest charge that can exist freely.

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