Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
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Chapter 12, Problem 4E
Two charged particles exert an electrostatic force of 20 N on each other. What will the magnitude of the electrostatic force be if the distance between the two charges is reduced to one-third of the original distance?
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