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Coulombs Law ! Please Help
Two metal balls A and B of negligible radius are floating at rest on Space Station Freedom between two metal bulkheads, connected by a taut nonconducting thread of length 1.30 m. Ball A carries charge q, and ball B carries charge 2q. Each ball is 1.66 m away from a bulkhead.
(a) If the tension in the string is 4.00 N, what is the magnitude of q?
(b) What happens as time passes ?
F= Ke x q1 q2/r2
I know the constant for Ke = 8.9875 x 10 9 N*m2/c2
And know the distance between the two objects is held together by a string with a certain tension of 4 N.
Quite honestly, I don't even know where to begin. She says this is a simple problem, but I don't feel the same way :)
Any help or suggestions as to where I should start would be greatly appreciated !
Homework Statement
Two metal balls A and B of negligible radius are floating at rest on Space Station Freedom between two metal bulkheads, connected by a taut nonconducting thread of length 1.30 m. Ball A carries charge q, and ball B carries charge 2q. Each ball is 1.66 m away from a bulkhead.
(a) If the tension in the string is 4.00 N, what is the magnitude of q?
(b) What happens as time passes ?
Homework Equations
F= Ke x q1 q2/r2
The Attempt at a Solution
I know the constant for Ke = 8.9875 x 10 9 N*m2/c2
And know the distance between the two objects is held together by a string with a certain tension of 4 N.
Quite honestly, I don't even know where to begin. She says this is a simple problem, but I don't feel the same way :)
Any help or suggestions as to where I should start would be greatly appreciated !