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ISBN: 9780078028229

Author: Charles K Alexander, Matthew Sadiku

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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Coulomb's law states that the attraction or repulsion force between two charged things is proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of their distance. It has an effect along the line that connects the two-point…

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Chapter 1.3, Problem 1PP

Calculate the amount of charge represented by 6.667 billion protons.

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