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When you double the distance between a pair of charged

Chapter 14, Problem 25E

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When you double the distance between a pair of charged particles, what happens to the force between them? Does it depend on the sign of the charges? What law defends your answer?

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When you double the distance between a pair of charged particles, what happens to the force between them? Does it depend on the sign of the charges? What law defends your answer?

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Step 1 of 3 Electrostatics force law or coulomb's law states that or inverse square law States that“The force of attraction or repulsion between two stationary charges is directly proportional to product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of distance between them.” F= q1 2 r2 Double the distance and the force quarters.

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