In the future people will only enjoy one sport: Electrodisc. In this sport you gain points when you cause metallic discs hovering on a field to exchange charge. You are an Electrodisc player playing the popular four disc variant. The disks have charges of qA = −8.0 µC, qB = −2.0 µC, qC = +5.0 µC, and qD = +12.0 µC. (a) You bring two disks together and then separate them. You measure the resulting charge of these two disks and find that it is +1.5 µC per disk. Which two disks did you bring together?

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In the future people will only enjoy one sport: Electrodisc. In this sport you gain points when you cause metallic discs hovering on a field to exchange charge. You are an Electrodisc player playing the popular four disc variant. The disks have charges of qA = −8.0 µC, qB = −2.0 µC, qC = +5.0 µC, and qD = +12.0 µC.

(a) You bring two disks together and then separate them. You measure the resulting charge of these two disks and find that it is 
+1.5 µC
 per disk. Which two disks did you bring together?
A and B
A and C    
A and D
B and C
B and D
C and D

(b) You bring three disks together and then separate them. You measure the resulting charge of these three disks and find that it is 
+5.0 µC
 per disk. Which three disks did you bring together?
A, B, and C
A, B, and D    
A, C, and D
B, C, and D

(c) Given the resulting charge of each disk measured in (b) is 
+5.0 µC,
 how many electrons would you need to add to a disk of this charge to electrically neutralize it?
 electrons
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