Two metal balls A and B of negligible radius are floating at rest on Space Station Freedom between two metal bulkheads, connected by a taut nonconducting thread of length 3 m. Ball A carries charge q, and ball B carries charge 2q. Each ball is 1.5 m away from a bulkhead. If the tension in the string is 2.5 N, what is the magnitude of q?  (ke = 8.99 × 109 N·m2/C2)

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Electric Charges and Fields

One of the fundamental properties is the electromagnetic property. Charge cannot be destroyed by any process and this contributes formally to the law of charge conservation.