Explanation:
With most of our blue planet covered by water, it's little wonder that, centuries ago, the oceans were believed to hide mysterious creatures including sea serpents and mermaids. Merfolk (mermaids and mermen) are, of course, the marine version of half-human, half-animal legends that have captured human imagination for ages. One source, the "Arabian Nights," described mermaids as having "moon faces and hair like a woman's but their hands and feet were in their bellies and they had tails like fishes."
C.J.S. Thompson, a former curator at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, notes in his book "The Mystery and Lore of Monsters" that "Traditions concerning creatures half-human and half-fish in form have existed for thousands of years, and the Babylonian deity Era or Oannes, the Fish-god ... is usually depicted as having a bearded head with a crown and a body like a man, but from the waist downwards he has the shape of a fish." Greek mythology contains stories of the god Triton, the merman messenger of the sea, and several modern religions including Hinduism and Candomble (an Afro-Brazilian belief) worship mermaid goddesses to this day.
The answer would be the coulombs law.
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.
