Electrostatics Flashcards

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Coulomb’s law

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2 point charges in free space or air exert forces on each other. The force is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the charges.

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Magnitude of the electric field at a point

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The force per unit positive charge E= F/q where E and F are vectors.

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