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What will happen to the force between 2 charged objects if the mass of one of the charges is doubled and the distance between them is double?

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The size of the force varies inversely as the square of the distance between the two charges. Therefore, if the distance between the two charges is doubled, the attraction or repulsion becomes weaker, decreasing to one-fourth of the original value
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