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here's your smoke du jour brought to you by the earth well it's [picture of earth as a globe]

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basically just one big magnet but it's the only magnet with an old dude in a [Santa Claus]

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red suit living at one pole alright a negatively charged particle the size of

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an electron is launched toward an electron what will happen are the same [word problem on screen]

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well we've all played around with magnets at some point in our lives

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magnets as we know have a negative side and a positive side if you put the [two kids play with magnets]

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negative side of one magnet on the positive side of the other magnet well

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they'll stick together if you try to put the two negative sides together they'll

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push each other back that's because identical charges always repel each [magnets repelling each other]

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other and opposite charges always attract each other so in our case here [magnets attract to each other]

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we've got two negative charges making option B the correct choice those

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particles will repel each other more than a vegan and a butcher at a cookout [two men BBQing]

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options a and C violate basic laws of physics and well that's never gonna work

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an option D well it can be determined so DS out just remember opposite charges

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attract and like charges repel and also remember that Santa looks good for his

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age and we're not just saying that okay [Santa Claus at the North Pole]

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