 Is about electric charges at

rest

 Static electric charges are

produced by friction
Or induction
The Westinghouse
Atom Smasher, the
5 MeV Van de
Graaff generator
built in 1937 by the
Westinghouse
Electric company in
Forest Hills,
Pennsylvania
Lightning in volcanic eruption
Coulomb's Law states that the force between
two bodies varies inversely with the square
of the distance r between them, and is
proportion to the product of the charges. In
the equation below the charges have sign,
positive or negative,
 Charles
Augustin de
Coulomb
Inverse square law example
The constant of proportionality k is equal to
 F1
+ +
F2 F1
+ F2 +
In an insulating medium :
 = r o

Dielectric Constant -
(or relative Permittivity)
is an electric property
of a material = 
r

o = Permittivity of
free space for
charges in
free space
= 8.85 x 10–12 F m–1
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Solving Problems Involving Coulomb’s
Law and Vectors
Vector addition review:
Example :
 Solution :

F1 F

F2
 Solution :

F1 F

F2
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Exercise 2 :

+ 2.0 C
Exercise 3 :

+ 4.0 C