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Question
What is meant by quantisation of charges?
Solution
The charge q on any object is equal to an integral multiple of this fundamental unit of charge e.
q = ne
Here n is an integer (0, ±1, ±2, ±3, ±4).
This is called quantisation of electric charge.
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