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GUJCET · Physics · Electric Charges and Fields

The electric force acting between two point charges kept at a certain distance in vacuum is 16 N . If the same two charges are kept at the same distance in a medium of dielectric constant 8 . The electric force acting between them is _________.

  1. A 1024
  2. B 128
  3. C 16
  4. D 2
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(D) 2

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(D)
\(F_{\text {medium }}=\frac{F_{\text {air }}}{K}=\frac{16}{8}=2\)