Consider the following pairs of objects and determine if they would exert an att
ID: 1571251 • Letter: C
Question
Consider the following pairs of objects and determine if they would exert an attractive, a repulsive or no electrical force on each other. (Consider these objects to be point objects so that we can ignore any effects of polarization.)
Attractive, Repulsive, or no electrical charge?
1 An proton and a neutron
A small positive point object and a small negative point object.
2 An electron and a proton
3 A small negative point object and a small negative point object.
4 An electron and an electron
5 A small negative point object and a small neutral point object
Explanation / Answer
1) No electric charge
2) Attraction
3) Attraction
4) Repulsion
5) Repulsion
6) No electric charge