Question

7. Compare and contrast electric force and gravitational force.

8. Describe the conditions under which electric force can either be attractive or repulsive.

Answer 1

• Gravitation only attracts, while electrical forces attract when the

electrical charges are opposite and repel if the charges are similar.

Gravitation is considered a monopole force, while electrostatics is a

dipole force.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The strength of both forces depends on the distance.

• Both gravitation forces and electric forces obey the inverse square law of distance.

• Both gravitation forces and electric forces can operate even in vacuum.

• Both gravitation forces and electric conservative forces

• Electric force is created by the attraction or repulsion of two charged bodies.

• Gravitational force is created by two bodies being attracted to each other due each body

being caught in each other's gravitational field.