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Thank you we sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by electric fields Our bodies generate electric

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fields constantly even when we sleep but we still can't

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shoot lightning bolts out of our fingers aren't the magnitude

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of an electric field caused by a spiritually charged object

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is e at a distance x away from the centre

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of the sphere what's the electric field magnitude at a

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distance three x away from the centre of the sphere

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and hear the potential answer for me Okay well there's

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a relationship between electric fields and distance The intensity of

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an electric field at a point in space is proportional

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to the inverse square of the distance From the point

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to the center of the electric field source say we've

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gotten electric field going and we put our cat at

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a distance x away from the source The intensity of

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the electric field he experiences is expressed as one over

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x squared if we then move mr whiskers so he's

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twice the distance away from the source thie intensity he

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experiences from the field is now one over to next

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square which means that at twice the distance the intensity

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is one quarter the strength on at three times the

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distance intensity would be one ninth is strong So in

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this question the correct answer is a Oh and don't

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worry about our cat In this scenario cats give off

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their own electric fields Plus mr whiskers is kind of 00:01:33.399 --> [endTime] a jerk who never wants to cuddle

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