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Q: Why do the hairs of your head stand up straight and apart from each other if you are given a strong enough charge?
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Where the net electric force is zero between two point charge that apart?

It depends on the amount of charge and nature of charge i.e. whether positive or negative


If the leaves of an electroscope spread apart it indicates that?

It indicates that the leaves of the electroscope have received a charge.


Is electrical force much weaker than the force of gravity?

No, it's much stronger. Take two metal balls, each with one kilogram of mass, set them down 1 meter apart, and measure the gravitational force between them. Then take two tissue paper balls, put one coulomb of charge on each one, set them down 1 meter apart, and measure the electrical force between them. The force between the coulombs is about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times as strong as the gravitational force between the kilograms. (that's about 1040.) You can pick up pieces of tissue with a little bit of electrical charge on a comb or a balloon ... that little bit of charge on a comb is stronger than the whole earth's gravity pulling the bits of tissue downward. Also, you can't pick up bits of tissue with a bowling ball, no matter how heavy it is, if it's not charged. Gravity isn't strong enough.


Why dont charged nuclei repel each other in a plasma?

They do. In those plasmas which don't fly apart there are other factors. In plasmas for fusion power, the plasmas are constrained by magnetic forces which keep the material in proximity. There is also the strong nuclear force. This is a very strong force, with a very short range. If two positively charged nuclei can be forced close enough together, then the strong nuclear force, which pulls them together, will become more powerful than the electromagnetic force, which pushes them apart. Then they form one nucleus, and spit out a lot of energy, and sometimes a neutron.


The electrical force is much weaker than the force of gravity?

Well, actually no. You can pick up pieces of tissue with a little bit of electrical charge on a comb or a balloon. But you can't pick them up with a bowling ball, no matter how heavy it is, if it's not charged. Gravity isn't strong enough. Take two metal balls, each with one kilogram of mass, set them down 1 meter apart, and measure the gravitational force between them. Then take two tissue paper balls, put one coulomb of charge on each one, set them down 1 meter apart, and measure the electrical force between them. The force between the coulombs is about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times as strong as the gravitational force between the kilograms. As my beloved mentor E. M. Hafner used to tell us at the U of R : If each kilogram of mass in the earth and each kilogram of mass in you was a coulomb of charge, you'd still fall down, but you'd just fall down 1040 harder.

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The force between protons would do if there weren't neutrons in the nucleus?

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