Chapter 22: Q. 20 (page 624)
What is the forceon thecharge in FIGURE EX ? Give your answer as a magnitude and a direction.

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Force with magnitude isand direction.
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Chapter 22: Q. 20 (page 624)
What is the forceon thecharge in FIGURE EX ? Give your answer as a magnitude and a direction.

Force with magnitude isand direction.
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A small plastic bead has been charged to. What are the magnitude and direction of the acceleration of (a) a proton and (b) an electron that isfrom the center of the bead?
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.

A glass rod that has been charged to +12 nC touches a metal sphere. Afterward, the rod鈥檚 charge is +8.0 nC.
a. What kind of charged particle was transferred between the rod and the sphere, and in which direction? That is, did it move from the rod to the sphere or from the sphere to the rod?
b. How many charged particles were transferred?
Objectsandare both positively charged. Both have a mass of, buthas twice the charge of B. Whenand are placedapart, experiences an electric force of.
a. What is the charge on?
b. If the objects are released, what is the initial acceleration of?
You have a lightweight spring whose unstretched length is 4.0 cm. First, you attach one end of the spring to the ceiling and hang a 1.0 g mass from it. This stretches the spring to a length of 5.0 cm. You then attach two small plastic beads to the opposite ends of the spring, lay the spring on a frictionless table, and give each plastic bead the same charge. This stretches the spring to a length of 4.5 cm. What is the magnitude of the charge (in nC) on each bead?
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