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.
Using v=u+at, Where v is final velocity(m/s), u is initial velocity(m/s), a is acceleration(m/s^2) and t is time(s).
v = 0 + 3.2*6
v=19.2 m/s.
Answer:
hmmm, i wanna say....5.0 m per second but im not 100% sure
The particle moves with constant speed in a circular path, so its acceleration vector always points toward the circle's center.
At time
, the acceleration vector has direction
such that

which indicates the particle is situated at a point on the lower left half of the circle, while at time
the acceleration has direction
such that

which indicates the particle lies on the upper left half of the circle.
Notice that
. That is, the measure of the major arc between the particle's positions at
and
is 270 degrees, which means that
is the time it takes for the particle to traverse 3/4 of the circular path, or 3/4 its period.
Recall that

where
is the radius of the circle and
is the period. We have

and the magnitude of the particle's acceleration toward the center of the circle is

So we find that the path has a radius
of
