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Static Electricity - Lesson 3 - Electric Force Coulomb's Law Charge Interactions Revisited Coulomb's Law Inverse Square Law Newton's Laws and the Electrical Force The interaction between charged objects is a non-contact force that acts over some distance of separation. Charge, charge and distance. Every electrical interaction involves a force that highlights the importance of these three variables. Whether it is a plastic golf tube attracting paper bits, two like-charged balloons repelling or a charged Styrofoam plate interacting with electrons in a piece of aluminum, there is always two charges and a distance between them as the three critical variables that influence the strength of the interaction. In this section of Lesson 3, we will explore the importance of these three variables.   Force as a Vector Quantity The electrical force, like all forces, is typically expressed using the unit Newton. Being a force, the strength of the electrical interact
Top 10 Trends For Digital Transformation In 2018 Even though we haven’t quite hit the final quarter of 2017, you could say it’s been an eventful year in digital transformation. Just as  I predicted last year at this time, user experience (UX), big data, smart machines — and of course, change itself—have proven big players in the business landscape this year. As we round the bend to 2018, we get a sense of what’s ahead in the digital transformation—barring any unexpected disruptions, of course. 1-4. The IoT Will Push Us To The Edge — Literally (IoT, Analytics, Edge, 5G) One thing I noticed in putting this list together is that the IoT kept popping up, repeatedly. This is why it has found its way to the top. Gartner estimates more than 8.4 billion "Things" are on the internet today, up more than 30% from just one year ago. However, IoT alone is just the start. It isn't so much about the things, but rather what we do with these things once they are connected and sup
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'Avengers: Endgame' Obliterates Box Office Records With $1 Billion Global Debut Mark Hughes Contributor Arts I write about films, especially superhero films, & Hollywood. It was inevitable. Marvel Studios' movie event of the decade   Avengers: Endgame  has proven invincible at the domestic and worldwide box office, in a historic super-powered $1 billion worldwide opening weekend that obliterates box office records. With the first two days of release generating more than $520 million in foreign markets (the running total as of Friday morning, which actually also includes China's Wednesday receipts) and domestic theaters adding $158+ million on opening day Friday (and on pace for $350+ million for the entire weekend),   Endgame   is piling up the theatrical receipts so fast that even my at-the-time-mocked   prediction of $890-900 million three weeks ago  (and which reiterated in my review,   which you can read here ) looks too conservative.