Competency #8
Explain the differences and interconnections between electricity and magnetism
Learning Objective e
- e.Explain Coulomb's Law
Question
Write down your answer to the following question:
You have just pulled your clothes from the dryer and find that a sock is clinging to your jeans with static electricity. You hold the jeans in one hand and the sock in the other and pull the two apart. As jeans and sock move apart, the forces between them become weaker because the :
- electric charge on each garment increases as they move apart
- electric current passing through each garment diminishes as they move apart
- electric charge on each garment diminishes as they move apart
- forces between electric charges become weaker with increasing distance
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