Suppose you brought a charged object near to the ball of the electroscope and to

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Suppose you brought a charged object near to the ball of the electroscope and touched the ball with the object. When you pull the object away the leaves stay spread apart. Next, you bring a different object close to the ball of the electroscope and, without touching the ball, the leaves fall. What can you infer about the charges of the two objects? The first object was positively charged the second object was neutral. When you brought the second object near the ball of the electroscope the excess electrons jumped from the ball to the object. It's impossible to know anything about the charges of the objects. Neither object was charged. The electroscope could not get extra electrons because it was surrounded by an insulator. Both objects were charged the same. The first positive charge induced a negative charge by the leaves, and the second object took away the electrons to make it neutral. The two objects were opposite charges. The first object gave the object an overall charge, and the second object induced a charge near the ball to make the leaves neutral.

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Both the charges must be same

because lets say positive charge was brought so negative charge induce into leaves so they got far apart now again positive charge has to be brought close to make the leaves fall

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