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Find equilibrium position for charged particle problem
3 charged particles on y axis. A third particle is somewhere such that the resultant force on it is zero.
What is distance from 0rigin of x y-axis to Q 3.
http://focusedwolf.googlepages.com/1.bmp
Node: for particle 3, that's the absolute value of 3 microcolumbs (not 131, those are absolute value things :P)... I'm assuming it's positive for this.
So I drew up a free body diagram for Forces on 3 net.
http://focusedwolf.googlepages.com/2.bmp
So,
http://focusedwolf.googlepages.com/3.bmp
Ok so how do I figure out which is the correct value of y?
[their are 3 image above...if you can't see them, then it'll look like i didn't do any work]
3 charged particles on y axis. A third particle is somewhere such that the resultant force on it is zero.
What is distance from 0rigin of x y-axis to Q 3.
http://focusedwolf.googlepages.com/1.bmp
Node: for particle 3, that's the absolute value of 3 microcolumbs (not 131, those are absolute value things :P)... I'm assuming it's positive for this.
So I drew up a free body diagram for Forces on 3 net.
http://focusedwolf.googlepages.com/2.bmp
So,
http://focusedwolf.googlepages.com/3.bmp
Ok so how do I figure out which is the correct value of y?
[their are 3 image above...if you can't see them, then it'll look like i didn't do any work]
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