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ELECTRIC CHANGES AND FIELDS

Physics
Inter Second Year
English
Short Answer Questions
Q1. State and explain Coulomb’s inverse square law in electricity.

Answer

Ans. Statement: The force between two point charges varied inversely as the square of the distance between the charges and directly proportional to the product of magnitude of the two charges and acted along the line joining the two charges
Explanation: Let $q_{1}\&q_{2}$ are two point charges and separated by a distance $r$ in vacuum $$\begin{array}{c}{\mathrm{F\propto q_{1}q_{2}}}\\{\mathrm{F\propto\frac{1}{r^{2}}}}\\{\mathrm{F\propto\frac{q_{1}q_{2}}{r^{2}}}}\\ {\mathrm{F=\frac{1}{4\pi\varepsilon_{\circ}}\frac{q_{1}q_{2}}{r^{2}}}} \end{array}$$Where $\varepsilon_{\circ}$-Permitivity of free space.