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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But that if both are negative not one pos one neg like the previous commenter gave in their examples, so the true formula has an absolute value in the numerator: |q1Xq2|

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, but there should be a minus in the Coulomb formula