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CHAPTER-OPENING QUI STION—Guess now!
Two identical tiny spheres have the same electric charge. If the electric charge on each of them is doubled, and their separation is also doubled, the force each exerts on the other will be
- (a) half.
- (b) double.
- (c) four times larger.
- (d) one-quarter as large.
- (e) unchanged.
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