This question is about static electricity.
A student has a plastic acrylic ruler suspended from a stand by a length of thin nylon thread.
The student wants to give the acrylic ruler an overall electrostatic charge.
Describe one way that the student could give the ruler an overall electrostatic charge.
47 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Physics 11.1 Charging by friction, covering 11.1.1 Charging insulators by friction, 11.1.2 Forces between charges, 11.1.3 Electrostatic phenomena, and 11.1.4 Earthing and removing charge. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.