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Two tiny, spherical water drops, with identical charges of -6.71 Ă— 10-16 C, have a center-to-center separation of 0.768 cm. (a) What is the magnitude of the electrostatic force acting between them? (b) How many excess electrons are on each drop, giving it its charge imbalance?

          Two tiny, spherical water drops, with identical charges of -6.71
Ă— 10-16 C, have a center-to-center separation of
0.768 cm. (a) What is the magnitude of
the electrostatic force acting between
them? (b) How many excess electrons are
on each drop, giving it its charge imbalance?
        
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Two tiny, spherical water drops, with identical charges of -6.71 Ă— 10-16 C, have a center-to-center separation of 0.768 cm. (a) What is the magnitude of the electrostatic force acting between them? (b) How many excess electrons are on each drop, giving it its charge imbalance?
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00:01 We are given that two tiny spherical water drops each have charged minus 6 .71 multiplied by 10 to the power minus 6 coulums.
00:17 The separation between them is 0 .768 centimeters, that is 0 .768 multiplied multiplied by 10 to the power minus 2 meters, multiplied by 10 to the power minus 2 meters.
00:33 In part a we have to find out the magnitude of electrostatic force between them and in part b we have to find out the number of excess electrons on each sphere so let us first solve part a we know that electrostatic force h k multiplied by q1 q2 divided by a square of the separation between them here a key is coulumps constant which is 9 multiplied by 10 to power 9 here q1 q2 both are same q1 is equal to q2 and this is equal to q both charges are same so q1 multiplied by q 2 will be q square and q is minus 6 .7 1 multiplied by 10 to the power minus 6 and multiplied by this value so a square of this divided y separation is 0 .768 multiplied by 10 to the power minus 2 squared we can easily solve this expression and we will find out that magnitude of the force is 686 .4.
02:12 Point four multiplied by 10 to the power minus 19 for siege 686 .4 multiplied by 10 to the power minus 19 newton.
02:32 Now let us find out the part b.
02:37 In part b we have to find out the number of excess electrons...
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