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two objects have unlike charges how would the electric force between the two objects change as they move apart

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The electric force between two objects with charge q1 and q2 is given by

F=k_e (q_1 q_2)/(d^2)
where ke is the Coulomb's constant while d is the distance between the two charges.

We can see that the force F scales as the inverse of the square of the distance:
(1)/(d^2). Therefore, when the two objects move apart from each other, the distance increases and therefore the force between them decreases.
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