Electric Forces & Potential

Electric Forces & Coulomb
s Law 1. A charge of -2 x 10-6 C experiences a force of 0.08 N [left]. What is the electric eld at that point? 2. A charge of +3.0 x 10-6 C is 0.25 m away from a charge of -6.0 x 10-6 C. a. What is the force on the 3.0 x 10-6 C charge? b. What is the force on the -6.0 x 10-6 C charge? 3. Three charges, q1 = 4 x 10-6 C, q2 = -2 x 10-6 C, and q3 = 5 x 10-6 C are placed at the corners of a square with sides 0.30 m, as per the diagram. What is the eld at at the fourth corner? 4. A charged droplet of mass 5.88 x 10-10 kg is hovering motionless between two parallel plates. The parallel plates create have a potential difference of 24000 V and are 2.00 mm apart. What is the charge on the particle? By how many electrons is the particle decient?

5. Four point charges form the vertices of a square with sides = L. Two diagonally opposite charges have a charge of 2.25 C each. The other two charges are identical to each other and each have a charge, q. If there is no net force on either of the 2.25 C points, what is the value of q? 6. Two point charges lie on the x-axis. A charge of 9.9 C is at the origin, and a charge of -5.1 C is at x=10 cm. a. At what position x would a third charge q3 be in equilibrium. b. Does your answer to part a depend on whether q3 is positive or negative? Explain. 7. A charge of 6.00 x 10-9 C and a charge of -3.00 x 10-9 C are separated by a distance of 60.0 cm. Find the position at which a third charge of 12.0 x 10-9 C can be placed so that the net electrostatic force on it is zero. 8. Air breaks down (loses its insulating quality) and sparking results if the eld strength is increased to about 3.0 x 106 N/C. What acceleration does an electron experience in such a eld (me=9.11x10-31kg)? (b) if the electron starts from rest, in what distance does it acquire a speed equal to 10% of the speed of light (3 x 107 m/s)?

9. Four point charges, each of magnitude 2.34 x 10 C, are placed at the corners of a square 40.8 cm on a side. If three of the charges are positive and one is negative, nd the magnitude of the force experienced by the negative charge. 10.A large electroscope is made with "leaves" that are 78-cm-long wires with tiny 24-g spheres at the ends. When charged, nearly all the charge resides on the spheres. If the wires each make a 30 degree angle with the vertical, what total charge Q must have been applied to the electroscope? Ignore the mass of the wires. 11.Two point charges have a total charge of 560 uC. When placed 1.10m apart, the force each exerts on the other is 22.8N and is repulsive. What is the charge on each? 12.Calculate the electric eld at the center of a square 52.5 cm on a side if one corner is occupied by a +45.0 x 10-6 C charge and the other three are occupied by -27.0 x 10-6 C charges? 13.Three equal charges, each of +4.6 C, are spaced along a straight line. Charge A, is at one end of the line of 1.8 m from the central charge, B. Charge C is the other side of charge B a distance of 2.2 m from charge B. What is the magnitude and direction of the total force on each charge? 14.An electric charge Q=4.50 C is in a region of electric eld with a y-component Ey = 4000 N/C & an x-component Ex = 700 N/C. What are the magnitude and direction of force on the charge Q? 15. Find the electric eld at a point midway between two charges of +.000000030 C and +.000000060 C separated by a distance of 30.0 cm. 16.Two parallel plates 2.1mm apart, are charged so that the potential difference between the

plates is 36V. a. what is the electric eld strength between the plates b. a small particle charge of +180nC is placed midway between the plates. nd the force on the particle due to the electric eld, and the energy required to move the particle 0.7mm towards the positively charged plate. 17.Two equal, positive charges, q = 2.0 C are located on the x-axis one at +0.3 m and the other at -0.3 m. A third charge Q = +4.0 C is located on the y-axis at +0.4m. Find a. the magnitude and direction of the resultant(net) force on Q b. the electric eld at the point (0.0,-0.4m)? c. the potential at the point (0.0,-0.4m)? 18. The Moon and Earth are bound together by gravity. If instead the force of attraction were the result of each having a charge of the same magnitude but opposite in sign, nd the quantity of charge that would have to be placed on each to produce the required force (mE = 5.98x1024 kg, mMoon = 7.36x1022 kg). 19. The electrons in a particle beam each have a kinetic energy of 1.60  1017 J. What are the magnitude and direction of the electric eld that stops these electrons in a distance of 10.0 cm? 20.A point charge q = -3.5 x 10-10 C is xed near the Earth's surface. Where must an electron be placed relative to the point charge so that the electric force acting on the electron is exactly opposite to its own weight (me=9.11x10-31 kg, re=6.38x106 m)?
Answers: 1. 40,000N/C,rt; 2. 2.6N, 2.6N; 3. 540900N/C@52.50 above hor; 4. 4.8x10-16C, 3001 e-; 5. -0.8C; 6. .354m; 7. 2.05m; 8. 5.27x1017m/s2, 8.5x10-4m; 9. 5.66x1011N@450 towards opposite corner; 10. 3.03C each (6.06C total); 11. 554.5C & 5.5C; 12. 4.7x106N/C,away from + (@450); 13. A: .0707,away, B:.0194N,to C, C:.0512N,away; 14. . 018N@+800; 15. 12000N/C, from 60C; 16. 17100N/C, 3.1x10-3N, 2.16x10-6J; 17. 0.461N@900, 171450N/C@-900, 117000V; 18. 5.71x1013 C; 19. 1000N/C; 20. 238000m (g=9.8) or 246800m (Gmm/r2)

Electric Potential 1.Two protons (m=1.67x10-27kg) move toward each other at 4 X 106 m/s. How close together do they get?
2. Three charges, q1 = 4 x 10-6 C, q2 = -2 x 10-6 C, and q3 = 5 x 10-6 C are placed at the corners of an isosceles triangle with sides 0.30 m. What is the potential energy of the system? 3. Ignoring relativistic effects, what is the speed of an electron (m=9.11x10-31 kg) that has been accelerated from rest through a potential difference of 80.0 kV? 4. A positive charge of magnitude, q, is placed at position, A, between two charged parallel plates as shown to the left. The parallel plates have a potential difference of V and are separated by a distance, d. State the increase or decrease in potential energy of the particle when it is moved from (a) A to B; (b) B to C; (c) C to D; (d) D to E 5. a. A particle with a charge of -3 x 10-8 C and 2 x 10-5 J of kinetic energy enters the region between two charged parallel plates as shown to the right. How far into the region will the particle travel? If an electron were released from rest next to the negative plate, with what speed would it strike the positive plate?
6. A particle (charge 7.5 x 10-6 C)is released from rest at a point on the x-axis, x = 0.1 m. It begins to move due to the presence of a 2.0 x 10-6 C charge which remains xed at the origin. What is the kinetic energy of the particle at the instant it passes the point x = 1.0 m? 7. Three equal point charges, each with a charge of 1.50 C, are placed at the corners of an equilateral triangle whose sides have a length of 0.200 m. What is the potential energy of the system? (Take as zero the potential energy of the three charges when they are innitely far apart.)
8. Two protons and an alpha particle (=He nucleus, 2p+,2n0)are held at rest at the corners of an equilateral triangle whose side length is 9.2010-10 . The particles are released and move apart. What is their total energy when they are far apart? 9. An electron moving to the right at 1.0% the speed of light (c = 3.0 x 108) enters a uniform electric eld parallel to its direction of motion. If the electron is to be brought to rest in the space of 4.0 cm, what direction is required for the electric eld, and what is the strength of the eld? 10.A charge of 2.75 C is held xed at the origin. A second charge of 2.75 C is released from rest at the position (1.15 m, 0.490 m). If the mass of the second charge is 3.30 g, what is its speed when it moves innitely far from the origin in m/s? At what distance from the origin does the 2.75 C charge attain half the speed it will have at innity?

11.What is the charge of q if location A is 2.40 m from the charge, location B is 4.5m away from the charge, and VB-VA=45V? 12.Two point charges of magnitude 4 nC and 5 nC are separated by 39 cm. What is the potential difference between a point innitely far away and a point midway between the charges? Answer in units of V. 13. An electron that is initially 53 cm away from a proton is displaced to another point. If the change in electric potential energy as a result of this movement is +3 x 10-28 J, what is the nal distance between the electron and the proton? Answer in units of m. 14.To move a charged particle through an electric potential difference of 2.0x10-6 V requires 4.8x10-6 J of energy. What is the magnitude of the charge?
Answers: 1. 1.7x10-14m; 2. -0.116J; 3. 1.67x108m/s; 4. +qV, -qV, +
qV, 0; 5. 1.87x107m/s; 6. 1.215 J; 7. .304J; 8. 1.25x10-18J (7.8eV); 9.Same dir as motion, 640.5N/C; 10. 5.74m/s, 1.67m; 11. 2.57x10-8C; 12. 415.4V; 13. 1.72m; 14. 2.4C