Repulsion Between Two Charges
Intro HS
Advanced HS
Physics
Electromagnetism
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Ever since scientists realized that the sun is powered by nuclear fusion reactions, people have been thinking about causing these reactions to occur in the laboratory in order to create a clean and abundant energy source. For at least five decades, this dream has been frustrated by a repulsive problem.
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Learning Objectives
At the end of this lesson students will…
- Apply Coulomb’s law to encode the repulsive force experienced by two protons moving along a straight path
- Evaluate how changing mass and charge affect the repulsive force between two protons.