Electrostatics
Electricity and Magnetism
Level
2
Which of these has the largest charge magnitude?
One kilogram of protons
One kilogram of electrons
One kilogram of neutrons
This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try
refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and,
finally, (c)
loading the
non-javascript version of this page
. We're sorry about the hassle.
1 solution
One electron has the same quantity of charge as one proton, but the electron has much less mass. One kilogram of electrons therefore contains many more particles than a kilogram of protons, and more particles means more charge. Although the kilogram of electrons is negatively charged, its charge quantity is greater than the charge quantity of the kilogram of protons. The kilogram of neutrons is neutral and has no charge.