Why coulomb force is called "mutual force"

Answer

The Columb's law is the same as Gravitational law

Explanation

As we see the formula of both Coulomb and Gravitational Law,

    (1)

        (2)

The masses (M) in formula (1) experiencing the force of gravitational pull with each other which varies with changing the distance. In the formula (2), the charges also are felling the forces on each other which varies with distance. The charges and masses are just like the objects which are experiencing the forces which have a common factor as distance. The gravitational force is also called the mutual forces.

An  atom  (ours, not carroll's) consists of a positively charged  nucleus, surrounded by one or more negatively charged particles called  electrons. the positive charges equal the negative charges, so the atom has no overall charge; it is electrically neutral. most of an atom's mass is in its nucleus; the mass of an electron is only 1/1836 the mass of the lightest nucleus, that of hydrogen. although the nucleus is heavy, it is quite small compared with the overall size of an atom. the radius of a typical atom is around 0.1 to 0.25 nanometres (nm), whereas the radius of a nucleus is about 10-6  nm.  *  if an atom were enlarged to the size of the earth, its nucleus would be only 200 feet in diameter and could easily rest inside a small football stadium.read more on -