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:


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