This question is about static electricity.
A student has a plastic rod suspended from a wooden stand by a thin nylon thread.
Describe how the student could give the plastic rod an overall negative 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.