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Nothing is stopping me from calculating the electric force, I'm just not sure why the kinetic energy is given. This chapter is about potential and potential energy so I have to use those somehow... o_O

The charges are moving away from each other. This is all the question states, there aren't any other information given. But apparently it's supposed to be a fairly straightforward calculation...

Homework Statement One of the three types of radioactive decay is "β decay", during which protons decay into neutrons or viceversa, emitting either electrons (β) or positrons (β+) at high velocity as a result. In one experiment, a β source and β+ source are placed 10 cm apart from each other...