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Why do like poles and like charges repell and unlike poles and charges attract?

April 26, 2017Charges Chemistry Mathematics Poles repell unlike

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Why do like poles and like charges repell and unlike poles and charges attract?

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This is a question of semantics… the definition of poles and charges. The charges are defined by what they attract and repel. We call same charges the ones that repel and opposite ones the kind that attract.