Question

2. You and a friend are spending a weekend at a carnival. You get bored and begin to make electrostatics measurements. It turns out that you have a charge of +3 Coulombs and your friend a charge of -5 Coulombs. What is the net electric charge?A) +2 Coulombs

B) -2 Coulombs
C) +8 Coulombs
D) -8 Coulombs

Answer 1

B) -2 Coulombs

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to find the net charge, we must add the charge that you have with the charge that your friend has, but taking into account the different sign. In fact, we have:

- Charge possessed by you: Q1 = +3 C

- Charge possessed by your friend: Q2 = -5 C

Therefore, the net charge possessed by both persons will be given by

Q = Q1 + Q2 = +3 C + (-5 C) = +3 C - 5 C = -2 C