A small sphere with mass 9.00 ug and charge -4.30 μC is moving in a circular orbit around a stationary sphere that has charge +7.50 µC. If the speed of the small sphere is 5.90 x 10³ m/s, what is the radius of its orbit? Treat the spheres as point charges and ignore gravity.

A small sphere with mass 9.00 ug and charge -4.30 μC is moving in a circular orbit around a stationary sphere that has charge +7.50 µC. If the speed of the small sphere is 5.90 x 10³ m/s, what is the radius of its orbit? Treat the spheres as point charges and ignore gravity.

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A small sphere with mass 9.00 ug and charge
-4.30 μC is moving in a circular orbit around a stationary sphere
that has charge +7.50 µC. If the speed of the small sphere is
5.90 x 10³ m/s, what is the radius of its orbit? Treat the spheres
as point charges and ignore gravity.

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