Electric Force
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This page contains information on the electric force on a point charge. Electric force is created by an external Electric Field.
The Coulomb Force Law
The formula for the magnitude of the electric force of two point charges is:
[math]\displaystyle{ |\vec F|=\frac{1}{4 \pi \epsilon_0 } \frac{|{q}_{1}{q}_{2}|}{r^2} }[/math]
where [math]\displaystyle{ {q}_{1} }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ {q}_{2} }[/math] are the magnitudes of charge of point 1 and point 2 and [math]\displaystyle{ r }[/math] is the distance between the two point charges. The units for electric force are in Newtons.
Direction of Electric Force
The electric force is along a straight line between the two point charges in the observed system. If the point charges have the same sign (i.e. both are either positively or negatively charged), then the charges repel each other. If the signs of the point charges are different (i.e. one is positively charged and one is negatively charged), then the point charges are attracted to each other.
Other Derivations of Electric Force
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