honeybees actively foraging in the field have been found to be electrically char
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honeybees actively foraging in the field have been found to be electrically charged, due largely to air resistance as they fly. the charges carried by a bee, which can be great as 92pC, is thought to play a significant role in pollination the bee can detach grains of pollen from a distance, like a charged comb attracting bits of paper. given the force required to detach pollen from an avocado stigma 4.0×10^-10N find the maximum distance at which the electrostatic force between a bee and a grain of pollen is sufficient to detach the pollen. treat the bee and pollen as point charges, and assume that the pollen has a charge opposite in sign and equal in magnitude to the bee
Explanation / Answer
Use the Coulomb's law to find the distance.
F = kq2/x2
Hence, the maximum distance is,
x = [kq2/F]1/2 = [(9x109)(92x10-12)2 / (4.0
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