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Okay i think i figured out the first one: I took the equation deltaU = k(q)(q1)/r and plugged in the numbers and did that three times and added them togehter. And like you said at a great distance they do not affect each other so their original potential is zero and from that i got that...

Im not quite sure what you mean my add the charges one at a time for the first problem? And on the second one, there must be another way to find the answer, i don't think we have gone over anything dealing with torque in our class yet. Got any more ideas? Thanks for the help though. I am...

ive looked at both of these for about an hour and can't figure them out the first one: How much work is required to bring three protons initially infinitely apart, to a configuration where each proton is 1.5x10^-13 m from the other two? (This is a typical separation for protons in a...