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Topic 2: Electricity and Magnetism
Quick questions on Electric fields and Coulomb's law (SACE Stage 2 Physics)
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What is sign handling?Show answer
Use the sign to decide attract vs repel, but use magnitudes when substituting into Coulomb's law for the size of the force.
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