explain the principles of attraction & repulsion between the charges?

Answer 1

Like charges repell and unlike charges attract. The force of atrraction or repulsion between 2 point charges is directly proportional to the products of their magnitudes, and is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

Answer 2

Like charges repel and unlike charge charges attract. The magnitude of the force depends on the magnitude of the charges and the inverse square of their separation.

Answer 3

The force of attraction or repulsion is due to the interactions of the electrons.eg. Whe 2 -ve charges come close yo each other because of their presence of electrons in them they repel each other.The presence of electrons in a-vely charged body is responsible.

Answer 4

the style is set how close the interplay between 2 bodies is going on. interior the quantity of area .charm skill shifting in direction of the physique ;repulsion skill shifting faraway from the physique. This phenomenon of charm and Repulsions vacillates constantly interior the climate of the Atoms. One expample of gravitational repulsion is displayed interior the action of the the TGV trains

Answer 5

like charges repel each other;unlike charges attract each other.
consider it.
if u hold an ebonite rod rubbed with fur and a glass rod rubbed with silk cloth and bring them close to each other-they would attract each other because the glass rod is(+)charged & the ebonite rod is (-)charged.

Answer 6

there are two kinds of charges:positive and negative.like charges repel and unlike charges attract each other.

Answer 7

electrons repell each other because they shoot photons at each other. So photons are the force carriers for the electrical force.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Suppose that you rubbed a balloon with a sample of animal fur such as a wool sweater or even your own hair. The balloon would likely become charged and its charge would exert a strange influence upon other objects in its vicinity. If some small bits of paper were placed upon a table and the balloon were brought near and held above the paper bits, then the presence of the charged balloon might create a sufficient attraction for the paper bits to raise them off the table. This influence - known as an electric force - occurs even when the charged balloon is held some distance away from the paper bits. The electric force is a non-contact force. Any charged object can exert this force upon other objects - both charged and uncharged objects. One goal of this unit of The Physics Classroom is to understand the nature of this electric force. In this part of Lesson 1, two simple and fundamental statements will be made and explained about the nature of the electric force.

Perhaps you have heard it said so many times that it sounds like a cliché.

Opposites attract. And likes repel.
These two fundamental principles of charge interactions will be used throughout the unit to explain the vast array of static electricity phenomena. As mentioned in the previous section of Lesson 1, there are two types of electrically charged objects - those which contain more protons than electrons and are said to be positively-charged and those which contain less protons than electrons and are said to be negatively-charged. These two types of electrical charges - positive and negative - are said to be opposite types of charge. And consistent with our fundamental principle of charge interaction, a positively-charged object will attract a negatively-charged object. Oppositely-charged objects will exert an attractive influence upon each other. In contrast to the attractive force between two objects with opposite charges, two objects which are of like charge will repel each other. That is, a positively-charged object will exert a repulsive force upon a second positively-charged object; this force will push the two objects apart. Similarly, a negatively-charged object will exert a repulsive force upon a second negatively-charged object. Objects with like charge repel each other.




The Electric Force and Newton's Third Law

This electric force exerted between two oppositely-charged objects or two like-charged objects is a force in the same sense that friction, tension, gravity and air resistance are forces. And being a force, the same laws and principles which describe any force describe the electrical force. One of those laws was Newton's law of action-reaction (discussed in Unit 2 of The Physics Classroom). According to Newton's third law, a force is simply a mutual interaction between two objects which results in an equal and opposite push or pull upon those objects. Let's apply Newton's third law to describe the interaction between Object A and Object B, both having positive charge.

Object A exerts a rightward push upon Object B. Object B exerts a leftward push upon Object A. These two pushing forces have equal magnitudes and are exerted in opposite directions of each other. Each object does its own pushing upon the other. The push upon Object B (by Object A) is directed away from Object A; and the push upon Object A (by Object B) is directed away from Object B. Because of the away from nature of the mutual interaction, the force is said to be repulsive.

Now let's apply the same action-reaction principle to two oppositely charged objects - Object C (positive) and Object D (negative). Object C exerts a leftward pull upon object D. Object D exerts a rightward pull upon Object C. Again, each object does its own pulling of the other. Just as before, these two forces have equal magnitudes and are exerted in opposite directions of each other. However in this instance, the direction of the force on Object D is towards Object C; and the direction of the force on Object C is towards object D. Because of the towards each other nature of the mutual interaction, the force is described as being attractive.



Interaction Between Charged and Neutral Objects

The interaction between two like-charged objects is repulsive. The interaction between two oppositely-charged objects is attractive. What type of interaction is observed between a charged object and a neutral object? The answer is quite surprising to many students of physics. Any charged object - whether positively-charged or negatively-charged - will have an attractive interaction with a neutral object. Positively-charged objects and neutral objects attract each other; and negatively-charged objects and neutral objects attract each other.

This third interaction between charged and neutral objects is commonly observed in the physics classroom. In the Static Electricity Lab, a charged balloon was held above neutral paper bits; the force of attraction for the paper bits was strong enough to overwhelm the downward force of gravity and raise the bits of paper off the table. In a classroom demonstration, a charged tube was held above some bits of paper and the paper was sent airborne. And in another demonstration, a charged rubber balloon was attracted to a wooden cabinet. Any charged object - plastic, rubber, or aluminum - will exert an attractive force upon a neutral object. And in accordance with Newton's law of action-reaction, the neutral object attracts the charged object.



Repulsion vs. Attraction

Because charged objects interact with their surroundings, an observed interaction provides possible evidence that an object is charged. Suppose that you enter the physics classroom and observe two balloons suspended from the ceiling. Rather than hanging straight down vertically, the balloons are hanging at an angle, exhibiting a repulsive interaction as shown at the right. The only way that two objects can repel each other is if they are both charged with the same type of charge. Thus, the repulsion of the balloons provides conclusive evidence that both balloons are charged and charged with the same type of charge. One could not conclude that the balloons are both positively-charged or both negatively-charged. Additional information or further testing would be required to make a conclusion about the type of excess charge present upon the balloons. Nonetheless, one can be convinced that both balloons possess an excess charge - either positive or negative.

Now let's contrast the observation of repulsion with that of attraction. Suppose that you now enter the physics classroom and observe two balloons suspended from the ceiling and exhibiting an attractive interaction as shown at the right. There are two underlying reasons for two objects attracting each other. One could be neutral and the other charged or both objects could be charged with the opposite type of charge. Thus, your only conclusion could be that at least one of the objects is charged. The other object is either neutral or charged with the opposite type of charge. You cannot draw a conclusion about which one of the objects is charged or what type of charge (positive or negative) the charged object possesses. Additional information or further testing would be required to make these conclusions. For example, if you could take each balloon and individually bring them near some neutral bits of paper, you could test to see if each individual balloon is charged or neutral. If a balloon is charged, then it would exhibit an attractive interaction with the neutral paper bits. On the other hand, an uncharged balloon would not interact at all with neutral paper bits.

The above thought experiments illustrate the conclusive nature of a repulsive interaction. When objects repel each other, one can be certain that both objects are charged. On the other had, the observation of an attractive interaction leads to limited conclusions. At best, one can conclude that at least one of the objects is charged.



We'll conclude this part of Lesson 1 by asking the question "How can a charged object and a neutral object attract?" As you've read this page, you might have been thinking something like "But I've only heard of two fundamental charge interactions - opposites attract and likes repel. Where did this third charge interaction come from?"

In all likelihood, most of us have only heard of two types of charge interactions (opposites attract and likes repel); and both of these charge interactions are fundamental interactions. The third statement - any charged object and a neutral object will attract each other - is simply an observable fact that can be explained by the two fundamental charge interactions. How? The explanation of this third charge interaction will be saved for the last page of Lesson 1. But first, the subject of conductors and insulators must be explored in order to understand our third type of charge interaction.