The electric force

• Calculating the magnitude of the attractive or repulsive forces between the charges

• Variation with distance and amount of charges

Coulomb’s law

-Charles Coulomb 1785

Q1 and Q2 : the two charges

(measured in coulomb: C)

r: distance between the charges

k: 9 x 109 N m2/C2

Coulomb’s constant

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