Chapter 22: Q. 64 (page 627)
What are the electric fields at points 1, 2, and 3 in FIGURE P22.64? Give your answer in component form.

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The electric field at given points in their component form are:
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Chapter 22: Q. 64 (page 627)
What are the electric fields at points 1, 2, and 3 in FIGURE P22.64? Give your answer in component form.

The electric field at given points in their component form are:
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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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