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AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism›Unit 1: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law›Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law

Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law

Like charges repel and opposite charges attract with F = kq₁q₂/r²; charge is conserved.

Coulomb's law
Superposition of forces
Charging

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Also called: coulombs law