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Problem21 79

This document calculates the charge imbalance and resulting force if the electron's charge was 99.999% of the proton's charge for a 1 kg book. It finds that the charge imbalance would be 480 C, resulting in a repulsive force of 8.3x1013 N between electrons and protons. This force would cause an acceleration of 8.3x1013 m/s2, demonstrating that even a slight charge imbalance in matter would lead to explosive repulsion.

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Problem21 79

This document calculates the charge imbalance and resulting force if the electron's charge was 99.999% of the proton's charge for a 1 kg book. It finds that the charge imbalance would be 480 C, resulting in a repulsive force of 8.3x1013 N between electrons and protons. This force would cause an acceleration of 8.3x1013 m/s2, demonstrating that even a slight charge imbalance in matter would lead to explosive repulsion.

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21.79: a) With the mass of the book about 1.

0 kg, most of which is protons and


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neutrons, we find: #protons = 12 (1.0 kg) (1.67  10 kg)  3.0  10 26. Thus the
charge difference present if the electron’s charge was 99.999% of the proton’s is
q  (3.0  1026 )(0.00001)(1.6  1019 C)  480 C.
b) 
F  k (q) 2 r 2  k (480 C) 2 (5.0 m) 2  8.3  1013 N  repulsive. The acceleration
2
a  F m  (8.3  1013 N) (1 kg)  8.3  1013 m s .
c) Thus even the slightest charge imbalance in matter would lead to explosive
repulsion!

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