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Electric Charges and Electric Force

Question 1
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What instrument is commonly used to measure electric current?

Question 2
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How does inserting a dielectric material between two charged plates affect capacitance compared with having just air or vacuum between them?

Question 3
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What alteration can be made to an electrostatics demonstration involving suspended charged spheres that will maximize their repulsion without altering their charges or masses?

Question 4
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Considering energy conservation laws, how does increasing one charged particle’s kinetic energy impact another stationary identical charged particle within an isolated system?

Question 5
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Two point charges are separated by a certain distance in a vacuum; if the distance between them is halved, how does the electric force they exert on each other change?

Question 6
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What happens to the magnitude of the electric force between two charged objects when the distance between them is doubled?

Question 7
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What is the unit of electric charge?

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Question 8
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Why do objects charged electrostatically tend to lose charge to surrounding air moisture over time?

Question 9
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What role does dielectric material play when inserted between plates of a capacitor that is connected across a constant voltage power supply?

Question 10
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Apart from increasing charge magnitude, what change in experimental configuration would most significantly increase electric force between two pendulum-bob-like charged objects suspended from insulating threads in a test of Coulomb's law?