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DATA Two small spheres, each carrying a net positive charge, are separated by 0.400 m. You have been asked to perform measurements that will allow you to determine the charge on each sphere. You set up a coordinate system with one sphere (charge q1) at the origin and the other sphere (charge q2) at x = +0.400 m. Available to you are a third sphere with net charge q3 = 4.00 × 10−6 C and an apparatus that can accurately measure the location of this sphere and the net force on it. First you place the third sphere on the x-axis at x = 0.200 m; you measure the net force on it to be 4.50 N in the +x-direction. Then you move the third sphere to x = +0.600 m and measure the net force on it now to be 3.50 N in the +x direction. (a) Calculate q1 and q2. (b) What is the net force (magnitude and direction) on q3 if it is placed on the x-axis at x = −0.200 m? (c) At what value of x (other than x = ±∞) could q3 be placed so that the net force on it is zero?
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