the 2 things getting charged are the particles in the air, and the plates on the ship (the will have equal charges and repel)
this is what I am thinking:
1. I use F = kq1q2/r^2 to get (q1q2). Assuming r = 1 meter (the charge plates charge particles roughly 1 meter away)
since q1 = q2 i can...
Hi, thanks for your speedy response.
I don't think i explained the problem very well, you see there's only ONE ship and it has electrical plates all over it that are suppsoed to lift it off the ground (using technology very similar to lifter technology).
Oh and its not an IB physics...
Hi, I am in 11th grade and am currently in my first year of physics.
I need to use Coulomb's laws to prove that creating a repulsive force of 110833 Newtons would take an impossible amount of energy to generate...but its not really that simple, please read on.
Our teacher recently assigned us...