The size of the force varies inversely as the square of the distance between the two charges. Therefore, if the distance between the two charges is doubled, <u>the attraction or repulsion becomes weaker</u>, decreasing to one-fourth of the original value.

Explanation:

Coulomb’s law, mathematical description of the electric force between charged objects. Formulated by the 18th-century French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, it is analogous to Isaac Newton’s law of gravity.

Both gravitational and electric forces decrease with the square of the distance between the objects, and both forces act along a line between them. In Coulomb’s law, however, the magnitude and sign of the electric force are determined by the electric charge, rather than the mass, of an object. Thus, charge determines how electromagnetism influences the motion of charged objects. Charge is a basic property of matter. Every constituent of matter has an electric charge with a value that can be positive, negative, or zero.

Coulomb's Law says that the force between 2 charges is proportional to the product of the quantities of charge on each and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The formula for Coulomb's Law is $F=k\frac{q_{1}q_{2} }{r^{2} }$ .

$F$ is the force.

$k$ is the Coulomb's constant ( $8.987*10^{9} \frac{Nm^{2} }{C^{2} }$ ).

$q_{1}$ is the electric charge of object 1.

$q_{2}$ is the electric charge of object 2.

$r$ is the distance between the two charges.

Electric force is inversely proportional to ( $r^{2}$ ) instead of ( $r$ ). As the distance between charges increases, the electric force decreases by a factor of $\frac{1}{r^{2} }$ .

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3 years ago

Insulators have very high .

Vlad1618 [11]

Answer:

Resistance to electrical currents

Explanation:

Conductors have low resistance to electrical currents, and are used to "conduct" the flow of electricity.

Insulators have very high resistance and are used to protect us from the flow of electricity.

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3 years ago

Calculate the force at sea level that a boy of mass 50 kg exerts on a chair in which he is sitting.

kogti [31]

As per the question the mass of the boy is 50 kg.

The boy sits on a chair.

We are asked to calculate the force exerted by the boy on the chair at sea level.

The force exerted by boy on the chair while sitting on it is nothing else except the force of gravity of earth i.e the weight of the body .The direction of that force is vertically downward.

At sea level the acceleration due to gravity g = 9.8 m/s^2

Hence the weight of the boy $w = mg$ [m is the mass of the body]

we have m = 50 kg.

Hence w = 50 kg ×9.8 m/s^2

=490 N kg m/s^2

= 490 N

Here newton [N] is the unit of force.

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