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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