how would coulomb's law be written if the charge of an electron was instead defined as positive and the proton as negative?



Answer :

F=kq1q2r2→k(−q1)(−q2)r2=(−1)2kq1q2r2=F

Electron are positive and the charge can be considered as q.

Proton are negative and the charge can be considered as -Q.

If protons were negatively charged, and electrons were positively charged, this would be equivalent to flipping the signs of all charges∗. Given that, it is quite simple to check that Coulomb's Law obeys charge symmetry, by applying the substitutions q1→−q1 and q2→−q2.

F=kq1q2r2→k(−q1)(−q2)r2=(−1)2kq1q2r2=F

Therefore, there would be no difference if we switched the sign convention of the charges

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