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(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

12.2. Coulomb’s Law http://www.ck12.org


b. Find the distance between the leftmost pith ball and the wall (this will involve working a geometry
problem)
c. Find the tension in the string (Hint: usey−direction force balance)
d. Find the amount of charge on the pith balls (Hint: usex−direction force balance)

Answers


  1. a. attracted b. 1350 N c. 1350 N
    2.Fg= 1. 0 × 10 −^47 N andFe= 2. 3 × 10 −^8 N. The electric force is 39 orders of magnitudes bigger.

  2. 0.293 N and at 42. 5 ◦

  3. b. 0.25m c.FT= 0 .022 N d. 0. 37 μC

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