You have just pulled your clothes from the dryer and find that a sock is clinging to your jeans with static electricity. You hold the jeans in one hand and the sock in the other and pull the two apart. As jeans and sock move apart, the forces between them become weaker because the
A) electric charge on each garment increases as they move apart.
B) electric current passing through each garment diminishes as they move apart.
C) electric charge on each garment diminishes as they move apart.
D) distance between the garments increase.

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The forces between the jeans and the sock become weaker as they move apart due to the increase in distance between them, which reduces the strength of the electrostatic attraction according to Coulomb's law.

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