Exam 15: Electric Forces and Fields

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An initially uncharged hollow metallic sphere with radius of 6 cm has a small object with a charge of +14 µC carefully placed at the center of the sphere through a hole in the latter's surface.With the charge in place,what charge is now present on the outside surface of the sphere?​

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A Van de Graaff generator has a spherical dome of radius 50.0 cm.Operating in dry air,where "atmospheric breakdown" is at Emax = 3.0 × 106 N/C,what is the maximum charge that can be held on the dome? (ke = 8.99 × 109 N⋅m2/C2)​

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A proton initially moves left to right along the x axis at a speed of 7.0 × 103 m/s.It moves into an electric field,which points in the negative x direction,and travels a distance of 0.70 m before coming to rest.What acceleration magnitude does the proton experience?​

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Two identical balls have the same amount of charge,but the charge on ball A is positive and the charge on ball B is negative.The balls are placed on a smooth,level,frictionless table whose top is an insulator.Which of the following is true?

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In x-ray machines,electrons are subjected to electric fields as great as 6.0 × 105 N/C.Find an electron's acceleration in this field.(me = 9.11 × 10−31 kg,e = 1.6 × 10−19 C)

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Charge A has 10 electric field lines coming out,Charge B has 20 lines coming out,and Charge C has 30 lines coming in.Which pair of these charges will have the largest force between them if placed one cm apart?

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Three equal positive charges are placed on the x-axis,one at the origin,one at x = 4 m,and the third at x = 7 m.Of the following points,which has the greatest magnitude electric field?​

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The electric field in a cathode ray tube is supposed to accelerate electrons from 0 to 3.2 × 107 m/s in a distance of 2.00 cm.What electric field is required? (me = 9.11 × 10−31 kg and e = 1.60 × 10−19 C)​

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The charge per unit length on an insulator is 6.2 μC/m.On a 2.0-m length of this material,what is the difference in the number of electrons and the number of protons?

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A 6.6-μC charge is placed at the origin and a second charge is placed on the x-axis at x = 0.1 m.If the resulting force on the second charge is 5.7 N in the positive x-direction,what is the value of its charge?​

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The electric field at the surface of a positively charged conductor has a direction characterized by which of the following?

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Charges q,q,and -q are placed on the x-axis at x = 0,x = 4 m,and x = 6 m,respectively.At which of the following points does the electric field have the greatest magnitude?​

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Two point charges are 12 cm apart.They are moved to a new separation of 3 cm.By what factor does the resulting mutual force between them change?

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In the Millikan oil-drop experiment it was found that oil droplets:

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An isolated,charged conductor is in electrostatic equilibrium.Which statement is correct?​

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A charge Q accumulates on the hollow metallic dome,of radius R,of a Van de Graaff generator.A probe measures the electric field strength at various points outside the sphere surface.If the probe is initially at a distance 2R from the sphere's center and then is moved to 3R,by what factor will the electric field reading change?

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About how many electrons are in 40 grams of water (H2O)?

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How can a charged object attract an uncharged object made of non-conducting material?

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Four charges are at the corners of a square,with B and C on opposite Four charges are at the corners of a square,with B and C on opposite   Corners.Charges A and D,on the other two corners,have equal charge,while both B and C have a charge of +1.0 C.What is the charge on A so that the force on B is zero? Corners.Charges A and D,on the other two corners,have equal charge,while both B and C have a charge of +1.0 C.What is the charge on A so that the force on B is zero?

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Which of the following best characterizes electrical insulators?

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