You can’t do an experiment on the planet without gravity playing some part of it (albeit sometimes so small you can ignore gravitational effects) since we’re in the Earth’s gravitational field. The electrical forces will add another force vector to our FBD that can be used when we look at how objects move in reaction to the forces.

Let’s take a look at how this works:

[am4show have=’p9;p58;’ guest_error=’Guest error message’ user_error=’User error message’ ]

Click here to go to next lesson on Charges in Objects.

[/am4show]