Chapter 22: Q. 17 (page 624)
What is the net electric force on charge in FIGURE?

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The net electric force on chargeis
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Chapter 22: Q. 17 (page 624)
What is the net electric force on charge in FIGURE?

The net electric force on chargeis
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Metal sphere in FIGURE has units of negative charge and metal sphere has units of positive charge. The two spheres are brought into contact. What is the final charge state of each sphere? Explain.

Four lightweight balls are suspended by threads. Ball has been touched by a plastic rod that was rubbed with wool. When the balls are brought close together, without touching, the following observations are made:
鈥 Balls are attracted to ball
鈥 Balls have no effect on each other.
鈥 Ball is attracted to ball
What are the charge states (glass, plastic, or neutral) of balls ? Explain.
A honeybee acquires a charge of while flying.
a. The earth鈥檚 electric field near the surface is typically (, downward). What is the ratio of the electric force on the bee to the bee鈥檚 weight?
b. What electric field (strength and direction) would allow the bee to hang suspended in the air?
You have two small, balls that have been given equal but opposite charges, but you don't know the magnitude of the charge. To find out, you place the balls distance apart on a slippery horizontal surface, release them, and use a motion detector to measure the initial acceleration of one of the balls toward the other. After repeating this for several different separation distances, your data are as follows:

Use an appropriate graph of the data to determine the magnitude of the charge.
You sometimes create a spark when you touch a doorknob after shuffling your feet on a carpet. Why? The air always has a few free electrons that have been kicked out of atoms by cosmic rays. If an electric field is present, a free electron is accelerated until it collides with an air molecule. Most such collisions are elastic, so the electron collides, accelerates, collides, accelerates, and so on, gradually gaining speed. But if the electron鈥檚 kinetic energy just before a collision is or more, it has sufficient energy to kick an electron out of the molecule it hits. Where there was one free electron, now there are two! Each of these can then accelerate, hit a molecule, and kick out another electron. Then there will be four free electrons. In other words, as FIGURE P22.61 shows, a sufficiently strong electric field causes a 鈥渃hain reaction鈥 of electron production. This is called a breakdown of the air. The current of moving electrons is what gives you the shock, and a spark is generated when the electrons recombine with the positive ions and give off excess energy as a burst of light.

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