Answer:
force becomes one - ninth
Explanation:
According to Coulomb's law in electrostatics, two charges can exert a force of attraction or repulsion on each other which is directly proportional to the product of two charges and inversely proportional to the square of distance between them.
Here both the charges remains same but the distance is variable.
So, we can say that
.... (1)
Where d be the distance between the tow charges
As the distance between two charges increases by factor of three, let the new force be F'.
.... (2)
Divide equation (2) by equation (1), we get


Thus, the force becomes one - ninth times the initial force.
Answer:
The beam used is a negatively charged electron beam with a velocity of
v = E / B
Explanation:
After reading this long statement we can extract the data to work on the problem.
* They indicate that when the beam passes through the plates it deviates towards the positive plate, so the beam must be negative electrons.
* Now indicates that the electric field and the magnetic field are contracted and that the beam passes without deviating, so the electric and magnetic forces must be balanced

q E = qv B
v = E / B
this configuration is called speed selector
They ask us what type of beam was used.
The beam used is a negatively charged electron beam with a velocity of v = E / B