What a delightful little problem !
Here's how I see it:
When 'C' is touched to 'A', charge flows to 'C' until the two of them are equally charged. So now, 'A' has half of its original charge, and 'C' has the other half.
Then, when 'C' is touched to 'B', charge flows to it until the two of <u>them</u> are equally charged. How much is that ? Well, just before they touch, 'C' has half of an original charge, and 'B' has a full one, so 1/4 of an original charge flows from 'B' to 'C', and then each of them has 3/4 of an original charge.
To review what we have now: 'A' has 1/2 of its original charge, and 'B' has 3/4 of it.
The force between any two charges is:
F = (a constant) x (one charge) x (the other one) / (the distance between them)².
For 'A' and 'B', the distance doesn't change, so we can leave that out of our formula.
The original force between them was 3 = (some constant) x (1 charge) x (1 charge).
The new force between them is F = (the same constant) x (1/2) x (3/4) .
Divide the first equation by the second one, and you have a proportion:
3 / F = 1 / ( 1/2 x 3/4 )
Cross-multiply this proportion:
3 (1/2 x 3/4) = F
F = 3/2 x 3/4 = 9/8 = <em>1.125 newton</em>.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Answer:
Extrasolar planets are very dim light sources compared to their stars. At visible wavelengths, they generally have less than a millionth of the brightness of their parent star. It is extremely difficult to detect this type of dim light source, and in addition, the parent star has dazzling light that almost makes it impossible.
Acceleration occurs whenever the forces on an object are unbalanced.
It's the group of forces on the object that's either balanced or unbalanced.
There's no such thing as "an unbalanced force".
Some of these frictions depend on the Pressure, temperature of atmosphere.
Static Friction: This is the friction force when two objects in contact are not moving relative to each other. This friction is higher than kinetic friction.
Kinetic or Dynamic friction: this the friction force opposing the motion of objects, when two objects in contact are in motion relative to each other. It is less than the static friction. The two surfaces are rubbing against each other as they move.
Rolling friction: This is the friction when two objects are in contact and one object is rolling over the other - like a wheel on a road. The point of contact appears as stationary. The rolling friction is very less compared to static friction & dynamic friction.
Lubricated friction: this is the friction between two solid surfaces in contact with a layer of lubricant fluid flowing in between them. This friction is the least.
Fluid friction - viscosity : this is friction between two adjacent layers that are moving relative to each other at different speeds in a fluid. This is not high.
Internal friction: when an object is compressed and forced to deform, like in a piece of rubber, there is friction between the layers, that opposes this deformation.
Skin friction is the friction that opposes movement of a fluid across a solid surface. This is also called drag. When a coin is dropped in water, there is a friction called drag on the coin. Same is the case when a ball is thrown, a drag is experienced by the ball due to the drag of air.
