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How can you solve an electric force problem with vectors?

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Start date Sep 30, 2012
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ASiCaRiO

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Sep 30, 2012

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Homework Statement

http://imageshack.us/a/img145/3799/img0302ok.jpg

Homework Equations

f=k*q1q2/r^2

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i just don't know how to start i just need a hint and i will do the rest

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Oct 1, 2012

#2

Draw vectors representing the individual forces the other charges exerte on q_o. The vector sum of these vectors has to be zero.

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