Coulomb's Law Flashcards
Charges exert ____ to one another.
Force
The magnitude of the electric force between two point charges is
directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely
proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Coulomb’s Law
Coulomb’s Law Formula
(Write it in a paper)
When more than two charges are present, the resultant force on any
one of them equals the vector sum of the forces exerted by the
various individual charges.
Superposition of Forces
There is an ______ between electrostatic
force and distance separation of forces.
inverse-square relationship
Two positive charges will have an attractive force.
False. They have repellant force
The direction of the electrostatic force is determined by the____ of the particles.
Charges
quantifies the amount of force between
two stationary charged particles.
Coulomb’s law
is directly dependent on the
amount of charge of the interacting particles.
The electrostatic force
There is an ______ between the
electrostatic force and the distance separation of the
charges.
inverse-square relationship
In getting the net force on a point charge in a system of charges, ______ should be applied.
superposition of forces
described the force between two charges using a torsion balance. He discovered an inverse square relationship between the electrostatic force (Fe) and the distance of separation (r) of the charges
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
the electrostatic force
Fe
the charges that are interacting
q1 and q2
the distance separation between the two charges
r
