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JEE Mains · Physics · STD 12 - Electric charges and fields
  • JEE Mains 2022
  • Medium
  • Numerical

Three point charges of magnitude \(5 \mu C , 0.16 \mu C\) and \(0.3 \mu C\) are located at the vertices \(A , B , C\) of a right angled triangle whose sides are \(AB =3\,cm\), \(BC =3 \sqrt{2}\,cm\) and \(CA =3\,cm\) and point \(A\) is the right angle corner. Charge at point \(A\) experiences \(N\) of electrostatic force due to the other two charges.

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(C) \(17\)

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\(F _{1}=\frac{ k \times 5 \times 0.3 \times 10^{-12}}{9 \times 10^{-4}}\)

\(=\frac{9 \times 10^{9} \times 5 \times 0.3 \times 10^{-12}}{9 \times 10^{-4}}\)

\(=1.5 \times 10=15\,N\)

\(F _{2}=\frac{9 \times 10^{9} \times 5 \times 0.16 \times 10^{-12}}{9 \times 10^{-4}}=8\,N\)

force experienced by charge at \(A =\sqrt{ F _{1}^{2}+ F _{2}^{2}}\)

\(=\sqrt{15^{2}+8^{2}}\)

\(=\sqrt{289}=17\,N\)

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