Problem: 1. When two point charges are a distance d apart, the electric force that each one feels from the other has a magnitude F. In order to make this force three times as strong, the distance between the charges would have to be changed to (A) 3d (B) sqrt(3d) (C) d/(sqrt3) (D) d/3 (E) d/9 (F) 9d
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From Coulomb's law, the force between two charges q1 and q2 separated by distance d is given by:
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1. When two point charges are a distance d apart, the electric force that each one feels from the other has a magnitude F. In order to make this force three times as strong, the distance between the charges would have to be changed to
(A) 3d
(B) sqrt(3d)
(C) d/(sqrt3)
(D) d/3
(E) d/9
(F) 9d
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