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As they fly, honeybees may acquire electric charges of about...

As they fly, honeybees may acquire electric charges of about $180 \mathrm{pC}$. Electric forces between charged honeybees and spider webs can make the bees more vulnerable to capture by spiders. How many electrons would a honeybee have to lose to acquire a charge of $+180 \mathrm{pC}$ ?

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Elementary Charge

Elementary charge refers to the smallest unit of electric charge that is indivisible in isolated systems, approximately 1.602×10?¹? coulombs in magnitude. It is the charge carried by a single proton or the negative of the charge carried by a single electron, and it forms the basis for calculations involving charge quantization.

Quantization of Electric Charge

The concept of quantization of electric charge states that charge exists only in discrete amounts that are integer multiples of the elementary charge. This means that any net charge, such as that acquired by a bee or any particle, results from the loss or gain of a whole number of electrons or protons.

Unit Conversion in Electrical Charge Calculations

This concept involves converting macroscopic measurements of electric charge, given in coulombs (or sub-units like pico coulombs), into the microscopic count of elementary charges. It requires dividing the total measured charge by the magnitude of the elementary charge to determine the number of electrons involved.

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