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Default   #238   Potironette Potironette is offline
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Are the energy of fields completely different from that of moving objects? And that's why the force of a charge is not mass times acceleration? Also, since Fe = |q|E, what kind of force is F = ma? Oh. That's kinetic energy. Do all energies have forces specific to them then? Or maybe they don't, but all I need to know is that the energies are separate in that they each have their own kinds of PE and KE and force equations because they are different kinds of energies?

Whenever a field force is mentioned, am I supposed to assume it is based on the proton? That is, if in a uniform field, E = 20 N/C west, I can assume there are positive charges at the east and/or there are negative charges at the west? And that is why to increase the PE for positive charge, the positive charge must be moved against the field, whereas to increase the PE for a negative charge, the charge must be moved with the field?
Is there no such thing as a negative field force (E)? Also, for point charges to calculate what the field force (E) would be at some point, I suppose it is also based on moving in the direction of the repulsion of a proton because all field forces are defined that way, for whatever reason?


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