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- A 26.3-g mass is suspended 4.35 cm above a nonconducting flat plate, directly above an embedded charge of q. a) If the mass has the same charge, q, how much must q be so that the mass levitates (just floats, neither rising nor falling)? b) If the charge q is produced by adding electrons to the mass, by how much will the mass be changed?arrow_forwardA -9.00 uC point charge and +7.00 uC point charge are placed along the x-axis at x = 0.000 m and x = 0.400m, respectively. Where must a third charge, q, be placed along the x-axis so that it does not experience any net electric force due to the other two charges?arrow_forwardSix electric field lines are drawn coming from a positive charge of 3 nC. Many of these lines end on a nearby second charged object, but two of the lines escape out to infinity. What charge must that second object carry?arrow_forward
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