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This question relates to Coulomb’s Law, which gives the force per unit charge due to the interaction between stationary charges.

When providing numerical answers you may express them using scientific notation. Express values to four significant figures and use the values of physical constants as provided in the course notes, and take the relative permittivity of air to be 1.0005.

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eps0	number	0.000000000008854
epsair	number	1.0005
epsmat	number	9
force1	number	71.8660065007
force2	number	7.9891043893
g	number	9.8
mass	number	7.3332659695
q1	number	2.0
q2	number	2.5
r1	number	2.5

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Using Coulomb's Law, calculate the force on a {q1} $\mu$ C point charge due to the electric field from a {q2} $\mu$ C charge when they are separated by {r1} cm of air.

$|\vec{F}| =$ force Newtons.

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The $E$ -field due to a point charge is

$\displaystyle{q\over 4 \pi \varepsilon_0 \varepsilon_r r^2}$

radially away from the point charge. The force experienced in an electric field is generally $\vec{F}=q\vec{E}$ , so the force on a point charge, $q_1$ due to another point charge, $q_2$ has a magnitude of

$\displaystyle q_1 {q_2\over 4 \pi \varepsilon_0 \varepsilon_r r^2}$ .

Since typically $\varepsilon_r\ge1$ , any material between the two charges tends to reduce the force relative to the point charges in vacuum. It is important to note that the question asks for the percentage by which the force is reduced, not the percentage of the original force that remains.

The force due to gravity is $mg$ towards the centre of the Earth, so one can calculate the force due the electric field and work out the mass that when mulitplied by $g$ has the same magnitude.

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