Question

Is pith ball electroscope better than a gold leaf electroscope, if no why so?

Answer 1

ANS: The pith-ball electroscope and the gold-leaf electroscope are two classical types of electroscope that are still used to demonstrate the principles of electostatics.

The pith ball electroscope consists of a small ball of pth suspended with a silk thread. if a charged body is brought near the pith ball then some of the charges get transferred from the body to the ball and the ball gets repelled from the body, detecting charges in the body.

While the gold leaf electroscope uses two golden leaves suspended from a metallic tube with a plate on top. Whenever a charged object is kept on the plate the charges get transferred from the tube to the leaves which repel from each other detecting charges.