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Chapter 25: The Electric Potential

Q. 31

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What is the electric potential at the point indicated a dot in FIGURE EX25.31?

Q. 32

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The electric potential at the dot in FIGURE EX25.32 is 3140 V. What is charge q ?

Q.33

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x=-1.0cmA-2.0nCcharge and a +2.0nCcharge are located on the x-axis at and x=+1.0cm, respectively.

a. Other than at infinity, is there a position or positions on the x-axis where the electric field is zero? If so, where?

b. Other than at infinity, at what position or positions on the x-axis is the electric potential zero?

c. Sketch graphs of the electric field strength and the electric potential along the x-axis.

Q. 34

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Two point charges qa and qb are located on the x-axis at x = a and x = b. FIGURE EX25.34 is a graph of V, the electric potential.

a. What are the signs of qa and qb?

b. What is the ratio qa/qb?

c. Draw a graph of Ex, the x-component of the electric field, as a function of x.

Q. 35

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The two halves of the rod in FIGURE EX25.35 are uniformly charged to {Q. What is the electric potential at the point indicated by the dot?

Q.37

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Two point charges 2.0 cm apart have an electric potential energy -180 mJ. The total charge is 30 nC. What are the two charges?

Q. 38

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A -10.0 nC point charge and a +20.0 nC point charge are 15.0 cm apart on the x-axis. a. What is the electric potential at the point on the x-axis where the electric field is zero? b. What is the magnitude of the electric field at the point on the x-axis, between the charges, where the electric potential is zero?

Q. 39

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A +3.0 nC charge is at x = 0 cm and a -1.0 nC charge is at x = 4 cm. At what point or points on the x-axis is the electric potential zero?

Q. 4

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A proton is released from rest at the positive plate of a parallelplate capacitor. It crosses the capacitor and reaches the negative plate with a speed of 50,000m/s. The experiment is repeated with aHe+ ion (charge e, mass4u ). What is the ion's speed at the negative plate?

Q. 4

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Two protons are launched with the same speed from point 1 inside the parallel-plate capacitor of FIGURE Q25.4. Points 2 and 3 are the same distance from the negative plate.

a. Is ΔU1→2, the change in potential energy along the path 1→2, larger than, smaller than, or equal to ΔU1→3?

b. Is the proton's speed v2at point 2 larger than, smaller than, or equal to v3? Explain.

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