placed It may seem that the force between two point charges placed in a medium other than the vacuum changes from what was the

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placed It may seem that the force between two point charges placed in a medium other than the vacuum changes from what was the force between them in vacuum However this statement is incomplete The correct statement is that the force between two charges placed in a medium other than vacuum does not change from what was the force between them in vacuum but the force experienced by each charge alone in totality changes To understand this statement clearly let us consider the scenario shown in the figure experien F Q F Q F In this figure the yellow particles are the charged particles of the medium Here F is the force on Q due to Q and vice versa and F is the force on the charges by the medium k Q Q Therefore the net force on the charge is F F F

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