inter-atomic powerplay
Electricity and Magnetism
Level
2
The figure shows two hydrogen atoms.
what is the total number of electric forces acting on different particles of the system.
12
4
8
6
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1 solution
Each particle exerts a repulsive or attractive force on every other particle. Thus there exists 4 X 3 = 12 forces in all.