You are doing an experiment involving electric charge. Your analysis of the data

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You are doing an experiment involving electric charge. Your analysis of the data and calculations give a result of Q = 2.61 Times 10-18 C. After some thought you realize that there must be something wrong with your calculations. Which of the choices below was the clue to indicate that the calculation is wrong? This number is far too small for electric charge. It should be more in the mC range. Electric charge must be an integral multiple of the fundamental electric charge e = 1.602 Times 10-19 C. C. Electrons have negative charge and your result does not have a sign associated with it. The fundamental electric charge only apply to quarks. Like charges repel. This then would produce an answer more like-or + 500 N.

Explanation / Answer

according to the quantization of charge , every charge must be an integral multiple of the fundamental electric charge .

hence it should be option B

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