Why Opposite Charges Attract?

If a positive charge and a negative charge interact, their forces act in the same direction, from the positive to the negative charge. As a result opposite charges attract each other: The electric field and resulting forces produced by two electrical charges of opposite polarity. The two charges attract each other.

Do opposite charges always attract?

Opposites attract.

These two types of electrical charges - positive and negative - are said to be opposite types of charge. And consistent with our fundamental principle of charge interaction, a positively charged object will attract a negatively charged object.

Why like charges repel each other and unlike charges attract each other?

When a positive charge is brought closer to a negative charge, excess number photons from the positive charge get transferred to the negative charge, so that the number of photons in both the charges are balanced. ... Therefore, like charges repel and unlike charges attract.

Maya Lin-Takahashi

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