ISRO Electrical Engineering (EE) 2015 - Question 50

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In practice, earth is chosen as a place of zero electric potential because it

  • A. is non conducting
  • B. is easily available reference
  • C. keeps losing and gaining electric charge everyday
  • D. has almost constant potential

Answer: D. has almost constant potential

Explanation: Due to Earth's immense physical size and electrical capacitance, adding or removing charges produces negligible potential change, maintaining an almost constant reference potential of zero volts.

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