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Electric Charges And Fields

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Define the quantisation of electric charge.

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Answer

The quantisation of electric charge is the property that the total charge qq of a body is always an integral multiple of a basic unit of charge ee. It is given by the formula q=neq = ne, where nn is any integer.

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