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A metal sphere of radiusRcarries a total chargeQ.What is the force

of repulsion between the "northern" hemisphere and the "southern" hemisphere?

Short Answer

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The force of repulsion between the northern and the southern hemisphere isQ2320R2

Step by step solution

01

Determine the expression for electrostatic forces.

Write the expression for the electrostatic force is,

F=kq1q2r2

Here,q1is the first charge, q2is the second charge,kis the Coulombs constant andris the separation between the two charges.

The electric field can be expressed as,

E=kqr2

Here, qis charge.

The force acting on the sphere's surface when it has a surface charge density is as follows:

F=蟽贰

Here,localid="1654326663841" is the surface charge density,localid="1654326681149" Eis normal to the surface of the sphere.

The below figure describes a metal sphere with a radiuslocalid="1654326701219" Rand a total chargelocalid="1654326716375" Q:


Here,localid="1654326727026" Xis the horizontal axis,localid="1654326740031" Yis the vertical axis,localid="1654326828096" Eis the electric field vector and localid="1654325912944" is an angle between the vertical axes.

02

Determine electric field

Write the expression for electric filed inside the sphere is,

Ein=k0.0Cr2=0.00N/C

Therefore, the electric filed inside the sphere is Ein=0.00N/C

Now, consider that a charge Qon the sphere's surface, the electric field outside the sphere may be calculated by replacingQforqin the equation.E=kqr2

Eout=kQR2

The sphere's electric field is Eand the hemisphere is half of the sphere, the hemisphere's electric field is given as, 12E.

Thus, the expression will be,

Ehemi=12E

Therefore, the electric field of the hemisphere is obtained by substituting kQR2for Ein the equation.Ehemi=12E

Ehemi=12kQR2=kQ2R2


The direction of the electric field will be radially outward because it is normal to the sphere's surface. That is,


03

Determine the expression for force

The force is defined as the product of the surface charge density and the electric field, it is given by.

FZ=Ehemi

On the basis of charge and sphere radius write the expression for the surface charge density:

=Q4R2

Also write the expression for force in the Zdirection,

dFZ=FZcos

04

Determine the total force on the northern hemisphere

Fz=Q4R2140Q2R2RcosdA=02Q4R2140Q2R2R2cossind02d=212Q4210R202cossind=Q2160R212

Solve further as,

FZ=Q2320R2

Therefore, the force of repulsion between the northern and the southern hemisphere is

Q2320R2

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Most popular questions from this chapter

Imagine that new and extraordinarily precise measurements have revealed an error in Coulomb's law. The actual force of interaction between two point charges is found to be

F=14蟺蔚0q1q2r2(1+r)e(r)r^

where 位 is a new constant of nature (it has dimensions of length, obviously, and is a huge number鈥攕ay half the radius of the known universe鈥攕o that the correction is small, which is why no one ever noticed the discrepancy before). You are charged with the task of reformulating electrostatics to accommodate the new discovery. Assume the principle of superposition still holds.

a. What is the electric field of a charge distribution 蟻 (replacing Eq. 2.8)?

b. Does this electric field admit a scalar potential? Explain briefly how you reached your conclusion. (No formal proof necessary鈥攋ust a persuasive argument.)

c. Find the potential of a point charge q鈥攖he analog to Eq. 2.26. (If your answer to (b) was "no," better go back and change it!) Use 鈭 as your reference point.

d. For a point charge q at the origin, show that

SE.da+12V痴诲蟿=10q

where S is the surface, V the volume, of any sphere centered at q.

e. Show that this result generalizes:

SE.da+12V痴诲蟿=10Qenc

for any charge distribution. (This is the next best thing to Gauss's Law, in the new "electrostatics.鈥)

f. Draw the triangle diagram (like Fig. 2.35) for this world, putting in all the appropriate formulas. (Think of Poisson's equation as the formula for 蟻 in terms of V, and Gauss's law (differential form) as an equation for 蟻 in terms of E.)

g. Show that some of the charge on a conductor distributes itself (uniformly!) over the volume, with the remainder on the surface. [Hint: E is still zero, inside a conductor.]

Here is a fourth way of computing the energy of a uniformly charged

solid sphere: Assemble it like a snowball, layer by layer, each time bringing in aninfinitesimal charge dqfrom far away and smearing it uniformly over the surface,thereby increasing the radius. How much workdWdoes it take to build up the radius by an amountlocalid="1654664956615" dr? Integrate this to find the work necessary to create the entire sphere of radius Rand total charge q.

Two large metal plates (each of area A) are held a small distance d

a part. Suppose we put a chargeQon each plate; what is the electrostatic pressure on the plates?

Prove or disprove (with a counterexample) the following

Theorem:Suppose a conductor carrying a net charge Q,when placed in an

external electric field Ee ,experiences a force F; if the external field is now

reversed ( localid="1657519836206" Ee-Ee), the force also reverses ( localid="1657519875486" F-F).

What if we stipulate that the external field isuniform?

Suppose the plates of a parallel-plate capacitor move closer together by an infinitesimal distance, as a result of their mutual attraction.

(a) Use Eq. 2.52 to express the work done by electrostatic forces, in terms of the fieldE, and the area of the plates, A.

(b) Use Eq. 2.46 to express the energy lost by the field in this process.

(This problem is supposed to be easy, but it contains the embryo of an alternative derivation of Eq. 2.52, using conservation of energy.)

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