1. State's Coulomb's law. 2. Suppose there are three charges at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. Charges are q1 3 nC, q2 = -4 nC, and q3 = 2 nC. You may put the charges in any order. The length of the sides of the triangle is 1 pm. In unit vector notation find the net force on any of the charges. ote: Here nC stands for nano-Coulomb and pm stands for pico-meter. Nano means 10-9 and pico eans 10-12

1. State's Coulomb's law. 2. Suppose there are three charges at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. Charges are q1 3 nC, q2 = -4 nC, and q3 = 2 nC. You may put the charges in any order. The length of the sides of the triangle is 1 pm. In unit vector notation find the net force on any of the charges. ote: Here nC stands for nano-Coulomb and pm stands for pico-meter. Nano means 10-9 and pico eans 10-12

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Chapter18: Electric Charge And Electric Field

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Problem 26PE: (a) Two point charges q1 and q23.00 m apart, and their total charge is 20 C. (a) If the force of...

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