00:03
All right, so i took a look at your problem here, and i'm making it as an assumption that there is no acceleration on this.
00:12
This is two pithballs that are in a sort of equilibrium there.
00:19
They're just suspended here, repelling each other due to their electric force, and it's causing this angle to form.
00:28
So it looks like you got the force diagram correct.
00:33
I reset mine up just so i can talk about how i determined what to write here.
00:41
So if they are truly in equilibrium, then the net force is zero in this scenario for both of these pitfalls.
00:50
Now, that means that the x component adds up to zero for its net force, and the y component is also zero.
00:58
Now, what components are causing or canceling out in the x component? it's the electric force and the x component of the ft.
01:11
So if i was to look at a triangle of ft, well, here, i'll just write it on the force diagram.
01:24
I have this triangle.
01:27
And so this is ftx here.
01:30
You can erase this.
01:36
Ft in the x component.
01:37
Ft and the y component.
01:40
So ftx, which is sine theta ft, must cancel out the electric force here of fe.
01:52
Those must add up to zero.
01:55
So they must cancel each other.
01:57
They must be equal to each other in terms of magnitude.
02:01
They're just in opposite directions.
02:04
Same is true about the y component.
02:06
There we've got the cosine theta of ft minus fg equals zero.
02:12
So i don't know if that was what was, if it was that simple of a problem.
02:18
I don't know if there was more to it than that.
02:22
They were just adding up to zero...