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Make your own charge detector. Take a paper strip roughly 10 cm × 3 cm. Give it a shape as shown in the below figure. Balance it on a needle. Bring a charged body near it. Observe what happens. Write a brief report, explaining its working
  
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a. Paper strips will open when we touch one side of the paper with a .
 
b. Due to the paper strips' two sides receiving the same kind of charge from the charged body, they  one another.