Answer by wbeaty for Why is charge of the electron negative?
Answering the first part: how was polarity first arrived at?Simple: electrostatics is part of electromagnetism in general, and the names of the charge polarities come from electrostatics history.Fur...
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That there are two distinct types of electric charge is a metaphysical fact. But nature is indifferent to what we choose to label these charges; up / down, left / right, positive / negative, black /...
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Benjamin Franklin proposed electric fluid theory and considered electric current to be flow of a charged fluid. He meant to use positive to denote a surplus of the fluid, negative as a deficit of it....
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As Zeldredge said the name is arbitrary and does not matter electron could have been positive and protron negative just the name.
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How did scientists figure out that the charge of the electron was indeed negative? I know how the cathode ray tube experiment works, but how did Thompson know that the plate that the cathode ray beam...
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