Re: Do you include a +/- when giving a magnitude?

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1 total messages Started by Dave Button Thu, 30 Sep 1993 17:16

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Author: Dave Button
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 17:16

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I, too, have the students work out the problem in absolute
units and then "assign" a +/- sign to indicate attraction or
repulsion.  The main thing I try to do is to show that the sign
correlates somehow with the motion of a test charge in the
field.
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Dave Button -- jbutton@tjhsst.vak12ed.edu
Osbourn Park High School, Manassas, Virginia, 22111

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