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Class PHYS 118

Created @Jan 10, 2021 6:03 PM

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Topic Coulomb's Law

Read the sections 18.1 – 18.3 from College Physics. After reading these sections you should
be able to define the following:
static electricity charge insulator
conductor electroscope

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Conceptual Objectives
At the end of this unit, you should be able to do each of the following. (Write the answers
in the space provided.)

State the Law of Charges. Like charges_______; opposite charges___________

What is meant by saying that charge is quantized and conserved?

2. Explain the three ways of charging an object— friction, conduction, and induction.
Compare and contrast these three.

3. State Coulomb’s Law and explain the meaning of each of the symbols.

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 Example

Redo and write up each of the following example problems with the following changes:
Example 18.1. Compare the electric repulsion between two protons to the gravitational
attraction between them.

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