Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 19 - Electric Charges, Forces, and Fields - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 684: 17

Answer

$1.37m$

Work Step by Step

We can find the required separation as $F=K\frac{q_1q_2}{r^2}$ This simplifies to: $r=\sqrt{\frac{Kq_1q_2}{F}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $r=\sqrt{\frac{(8.99\times 10^9)(11.2\times 10^{-6})(29.1\times 10^{-6})}{1.57}}$ $r=1.37m$
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