Two neutral small metal spheres are hanging vertically next to one another (but

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Two neutral small metal spheres are hanging vertically next to one another (but not touching), suspended by insulating strings. You touch a positively charged object to the left of the two metal spheres and then remove the positively charged object. What then happens to the two metal spheres?

A. They are both repelled from one another.

B. There is no attraction between either of them (they continue to hang straight down).     

C. They are both attracted to one another

D. The right sphere is attracted to the left one, but the left one is not attracted to the right one.

E. The right sphere is repelled from the left one, but the left one is not repelled from the right one.

Explanation / Answer

Two neutral small metal spheres are hanging vertically next to one another (but not touching), suspended by insulating strings.

C. They are both attracted to one another

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