Scuffing your feet across a carpet on a cold dry day, you pick up 47,010,000,000 electrons. How much charge is that, in microcoulombs (uC)

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We will see that the charge is -7.53*10^{-3} uC.

How to get the charge that you pick up?

Here we know how many electrons you pick up, so we just need to find what is the charge of a single electron.

We know that the charge of an electron is:

[tex]e = -1.6*10^{-19} C[/tex]

Where the negative sign is because the electron has a negative charge.

Then a total of 47,010,000,000 electrons has a charge:

[tex]47,010,000,000*(-1.6*10^{-19} C) = -7.52*10^{-9} C[/tex]

But we want this in micro coulombs, remember that:

1 uC = 1*10^(-6) C

Then we can rewrite the charge as:

[tex]-7.52*10^{-9} C =-7.52*10^{-9}*(10^6) \mu C = -7.52*10^{-3} \mu C[/tex]

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