plumiWhat is electric charge?: OCR GCSE Physics B questions
Every OCR GCSE Physics B exam question on P3.1 What is electric charge?, 2018–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 18 questions on What is electric charge?, as a list
- June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q5(a)(i) (1 mark): Which particle has been removed from the rod and transferred to the cloth? Tick (✓) one box. Electron Proton Neutron [1]
- June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q5(a)(ii) (1 mark): What charge is now on the cloth? Tick (✓) one box. Positive Negative Neutral [1]
- June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q5(b) (1 mark): The teacher hangs the positively charged rod from a string. They hold a negatively charged rod close to it. Describe what happens to the positively charged rod.
- June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q5(c) (2 marks): The teacher touches the positively charged plastic rod with a piece of metal foil. The rod becomes uncharged. Explain how the rod becomes uncharged. [2]
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q10(a) (2 marks): Suggest what has happened to cause the child’s hair to stand on end. [2]
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q10(b) (1 mark): Complete the sentence to explain static electricity. Put a ring around the correct option. Static electricity is the sharing / storing / transfer of electrons b
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q10(c)(i) (2 marks): Explain what the direction and spacing of the arrows mean about the electric field. Direction of arrows Spacing of arrows [2]
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q10(c)(ii) (1 mark): A second balloon is brought close to this balloon and the two balloons repel one another. State the type of charge on the second balloon. [1]
- June 2023, Paper 3 Higher, Q1(a) (2 marks): Suggest what has happened to cause the child’s hair to stand on end. [2]
- June 2023, Paper 3 Higher, Q1(b) (1 mark): Complete the sentence to explain static electricity. Put a ring around the correct option. Static electricity is the sharing / storing / transfer of electrons b
- June 2023, Paper 3 Higher, Q1(c)(i) (2 marks): Explain what the direction and spacing of the arrows mean about the electric field. Direction of arrows Spacing of arrows [2]
- June 2023, Paper 3 Higher, Q1(c)(ii) (1 mark): A second balloon is brought close to this balloon and the two balloons repel one another. State the type of charge on the second balloon. [1]
- June 2022, Paper 3 Higher, Q6(a) (2 marks): In Fig. 6.2 a doll’s head is attached to the top of the dome. When the dome is charged, the doll’s hair also becomes negatively charged. The hair stands on end.
- June 2022, Paper 3 Higher, Q6(b)(i) (3 marks): Calculate the initial current that flowed through the wooden rule. Use the Data Sheet. Current = A [3]
- June 2022, Paper 3 Higher, Q6(b)(ii) (2 marks): Mia’s teacher talks about how he discharged the dome. Mia’s teacher It is possible to discharge the dome using a wooden rule even though it has a high resistanc
- June 2019, Paper 2 Foundation, Q1(a) (1 mark): What is the name of the field that surrounds the charged balloon and cloth? Put a ring around the correct answer. electric electromagnetic gravitational magneti
- June 2019, Paper 2 Foundation, Q1(b) (2 marks): Explain why the balloon no longer hangs vertically. [2]
- June 2019, Paper 2 Foundation, Q1(c) (2 marks): Jack makes the following comment to explain the charges on the balloon and the cloth. Jack The balloon has picked up atoms from the cloth. The cloth has picked
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