Electrostatics in Physics
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What does electrostatics study?

  • Slow-moving or stationary magnetic charges
  • Magnetic fields
  • Slow-moving or stationary electric charges (correct)
  • Fast-moving electric charges

    • What is the source of the word 'electricity'?

  • The Greek word for static
  • The Greek word for amber (correct)
  • The Greek word for magnet
  • The Greek word for charge

    • What law describes the forces that electric charges exert on each other?

  • Faraday's law
  • Coulomb's law (correct)
  • Newton's law
  • Einstein's law

    • At what scale do electrostatic forces play a large role?

    <p>Atomic scale</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Coulomb's law state?

    <p>The magnitude of the electrostatic force is directly proportional to the product of the magnitudes of charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them</p> Signup and view all the answers

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