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Two small identical conducting spheres first attract one another Then conductor are touched together and brought back to the same separation as initially. The conductor now repel one another with the same force magnitude as initially. What was the ratio of the original charge magnitudes?

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Two identical small conducting spheres, having charges of opposite sign, attract each other with a force of 0.108N when separated by 0.5m. The spheres are connected by a conducting wire, which is then removed, and thereafter, they repel each other with a force of 0.036N. The initial charges of the spheres are :