After finishing one run of Coulomb's law experiment with two identical charges q, you measured the Fq value between them as 0.16 N. You then were instructed to reduce the distance between the charges by half. Therefore, your expected result about the force Fq is 0.8 N 0.08 N 0.64 N 16 N

After finishing one run of Coulomb's law experiment with two identical charges q, you measured the Fq value between them as 0.16 N. You then were instructed to reduce the distance between the charges by half. Therefore, your expected result about the force Fq is 0.8 N 0.08 N 0.64 N 16 N

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0.64 N

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