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University Physics with Modern Physics

Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman

Physics

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ISBN: 9780321973610

Chapter 4: Q26E (page 715)

An electron is released from rest in a uniform electric field. The electron accelerates vertically upward, traveling 4.50 m in the first $3.00 渭 s$ after it is released. (a) What are the magnitude and direction of the electric field? (b) Are we justified in ignoring the effects of gravity? Justify your answer quantitatively.

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Magnitude and direction of the electric field is 5.69N/C and the direction is downwards.
Influence of gravity can be neglected.

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Step 1:

(E) Electric field is a vector quantity and is the force unit per charge exerted on any test charge at any point.

A charge in an electric field is accelerated by a net force.

Then force is $\overset{鈫�}{F} = m \overset{鈫�}{a} = q \overset{鈫�}{E}$

So let +y be upwards

Electron charge q=-e

Step 2:

As $v_{o y} = 0, a_{y} = a$

y 鈭� y_{0} = v_{o y} t + \frac{1}{2} a_{y} t^{2} y 鈭� y_{0} = \frac{1}{2} a t^{2}

Putting all the values,

$\begin{aligned} a & = \frac{2 (y 鈭� y_{0})}{t^{2}} \end{aligned} = \frac{2 (4.50)}{{(3 脳 10^{鈭� 6})}^{2}} = 1 脳 10^{12} m / s^{2}$

Now, the magnitude of the electric field is

$\begin{aligned} E & = \frac{F}{q} = \frac{m a}{q} \end{aligned} = \frac{(9.11 脳 10^{31}) (1 脳 10^{12})}{1.6 脳 10^{鈭� 19}} = 5.69 N / C$

Therefore, the Magnitude and direction of the electric field is 5.69N/C and the direction is downwards.

Step 3:

As, the net force acting on the electron is an electrical force because, as electron acceleration is much higher, therefore the influence of gravity can be neglected.

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