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AP Physics 2
10.2 Conservation of Electric Charge and the Process of Charging
10.1 Electric Charge and Electric Force
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A rubber balloon labeled with negative minus signs distributed along its outer boundary is suspended a short distance directly above several small, flat, uncharged rectangular pieces of paper resting on a flat horizontal table top surface. No force vectors, field lines, or molecular dipoles are drawn. The drawing shows only the physical setup. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
A negatively charged balloon held above uncharged paper pieces.
A negatively charged rubber balloon is brought near small, uncharged pieces of paper resting on a table. The paper pieces are observed to jump upward and stick to the balloon. Which of the following claims and justifications best explains why the neutral paper pieces are attracted to the charged balloon?

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