Like charges repel and unlike charges

[flyingpig]

Homework Statement

Unlike charges attract. Now here is my question, is this a phenomenon of Newton's third Law? I couldn't ask my lecturer because I had to run to another class for a quiz. It's friday and I don't want to ruin his friday.

The "repelling" force is a real right?

 

[Apphysicist]

Homework Statement

Unlike charges attract. Now here is my question, is this a phenomenon of Newton's third Law? I couldn't ask my lecturer because I had to run to another class for a quiz. It's friday and I don't want to ruin his friday.

The "repelling" force is a real right?

The application of N3L in this case would be the idea that both charges experience an equal force in antiparallel directions; it doesn't really comment on WHY opposite charges attract and like charges repel.

 

[flyingpig]

But the repel must have a force right? Or is it one of those "fictitious forces"?

 

[flyingpig]

Am I right though?

 

[Apphysicist]

The Coulomb force (attracting or repelling) is a real force.

 

[flyingpig]

But it is under Newton's Third Law?