Difference and Similarities between Electricity and Gravity

• Mathematical form of the Coulomb law and law of gravitation very similar

- gravitation is always attractive (no

negative mass)

- electrical force can be both

attractive or repulsive

- Electric force is dominant in the

atomic world

- Gravitational forces dominates on the

macroscopic scale: people, planets, galaxies

- Electric forces are more stronger !!!

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