To become an owner of any company a person must have contributed to its capital. To facilitate this there total capital required by the company is divided into small units or shares. One becomes a member of a company (shareholder) by purchasing one or more of the shares. Share capital is thus the capital raised from members of the company. As expected shareholders expect return on their investment. Thus the profi ts made by the company are distributed to the shareholders in proportion to the number of shares held. The profi t distributed to the shareholders is referred to as a divided. This amount is determined and proposed to the share holders for approval by the directors. The shareholders; however, are only allowed to review the proposal downwards. The accounting for and distribution of profi ts shall be covered comprehensively later on.

1.  Attraction is not the real proof that an object is being charged. Explain?

2.  What happens to the mass of an object when it is positively charged?

3. Explain the property that makes gold suitable for use in a gold-leaf electroscope.

4. What is the function of a gold-leaf electroscope?

5. Explain the kind of charge that will develop when a glass rod is rubbed with silk.

6. State the number of electrons found in 1 coulomb charge

7.  What will happen when two spheres of the same charges that attract each other comes into contact?

8.  Explain the effect on the plates of an apparatus if alternating charge is measured using a gold-leaf oscilloscope

9.  State the number of electrons found in a one coulomb charge

10.  What do you understand by the term current carrier in a conductor?