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In earlier chapters we noted the similarities between Coulomb’s law for the attraction of charged particles and Newton’s law for the attraction of masses. Both are inverse square law forces.
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Harwit, M. (1998). Electromagnetic Processes in Space. In: Astrophysical Concepts. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2928-3_6
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