Electrical Interaction

What type of force is an electric or electrostatic force?

• A contact force

• A force that only affects uncharged objects

• A non-contact force

• A gravitational force

How do objects with the same type of charge interact?

• They attract each other.

• They repel each other.

• They become neutral.

• They have no interaction.

What happens when a charged object is brought near a neutral object?

• They repel each other.

• They attract each other.

• The neutral object becomes charged with the same type of charge.

• There is no interaction between them.

Why does observing repulsion between two objects provide more conclusive evidence that both objects are charged than observing attraction?

• Repulsion is a stronger force than attraction.

• Attraction only occurs between oppositely charged objects.

• Repulsion only occurs between objects with the same type of charge, while attraction can occur between charged and neutral objects.

• Neutral objects cannot be involved in any type of electrostatic interaction.