Charge Definition and 1000 Threads
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Charge Inside a Cavity in a Conductor
Let us say we have a cavity inside a conductor. We then sprinkle some charge with density ##\rho(x,y,z)## inside this surface. We have two equations for the electric field $$\nabla\times\mathbf{E}=0$$ $$\nabla\cdot\mathbf{E}=\frac{\rho}{\epsilon_0}$$ We also have the boundary conditions...- Luke Tan
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- Cavity Charge Conductor Electricity and magnetism
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Electric field produced by a uniform charge density on a wall
I couldn't solve the question. Can you help me?- Jamesdn
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- Charge Charge density Density Electric Electric field Field Phsyics produced Uniform Wall
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Newton's Shell Theorem and charge
I've been discussing Newton's Shell Theorem re: gravity with someone, and thought of the analogy to charge. 1. I think the net effect on a negative charge inside a hollow sphere of positive charge will be zero. i.e. No net attraction. Yes? 2. But what would happen to the magnetic field if the...- DaveC426913
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- Charge Shell Theorem
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- Forum: Electromagnetism
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Electric force between two equal parallel rings of charge
The problem is symmetric around the z axis, thus the force must be in the z direction only. I tried dividing both rings into differential elements, then integrating through the upper ring to get the z component of the total force on the upper ring due to a differential element of the lower ring...- Flaming Physicist
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- Charge Electric Electric force Electrostatics Force Parallel Rings
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Understanding Electrical Potential Energy of a charge distribution
I quite understand the fact the EPE (Electrical Potential Energy) of a system of two charges are U = k*qQ/r, Q is fix. however when it comes to three charges i get lost. because my reasoning is : if q1 is fix then the EPE of the system when q2 is brought is U2 = k*q1*q2/r12, when q3 is brought...- iochoa2016
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- Charge Charge distribution Distribution Electric potential energy Electrical Electrical potential Energy Potential Potential energy
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Electric potential:Potential difference of test charge
Electric potential energy at initial: Ee=kq1q2/r =(9 ×10 ^9×1.5×10^-6×(-5)×10^-6)/0.1 =-0.675J Electric potential energy at the closer point: Ee=kq1q2/r =(9 ×10^9×1.5×10^-6×(-5)×10^-6)/0.05 =-1.35J Δv=ΔEe/q =(-1.35+0.675)/1.5×10^-6 =4.5×10^5V or: Initial position...- yuminie
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- Charge Difference Electric Test
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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I Difficult Series Battery Problem
Modern batteries use double-sided anode and cathodes for greater energy density. Series wiring of batteries is typically accomplished by connecting the anode of one cell to the cathode of another. However, can series be accomplished by stacking double-sided anode and cathode alternatingly with...- Patrick Underwood
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- Batteries Battery Charge Electron Series Series circuit Theoretical
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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Safe to charge a Lithium Battery with a Voltage Limit?
All the references I find refer to safely charging lithium cells by a method like this: https://www.powerstream.com/li.htm The next page shows the effects on capacity of charging to less than the 4.2 V terminal cell voltage. For example, charging to 4.0 V still provides 73% of the capacity...- NTL2009
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- Battery Charge Limit Lithium Voltage
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Torque on an atom due to two infinite lines of charge
Hope someone can help!- nfepow
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- Atom Charge Infinite Lines Torque
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Image charge of source charge in spherical cavity
All are used to finding the image charge induced by a source charge outside a conducting sphere. The solution is supposed to also work for the case where the source charge is inside the conducting sphere, in which case the sphere is now a conducting cavity. But the solution suggests the image...- feynman1
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- Cavity Charge Image Source Spherical
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- Forum: Electromagnetism
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Question about the quotient of the charge and mass of an electron
hello Witch of these are certain sentences? a-\dfrac{e}{m_e}>\dfrac{H^{-}}{m_{H^{-}}}\cdot{1000} b-\dfrac{e}{m_e}>\dfrac{H^{+}}{m_{H^{+}}}\cdot{1000} The first accurate measurement of e/m was made by english physicist J.J. Thomson in 1897, who demostrated that the quotient charge-mass of the...- mcastillo356
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- Charge Electron Mass quotient
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- Forum: Chemistry
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Work done by pushing a proton into the sphere with non-uniform charge
I have already calculated full charge inside the sphere: e = ∫ρ dV = 2πBr^2 And I know that electric potential on the edge of the sphere is: U = e/ 4πεr The idea is that I calculate work by the change of electric potential energy, but to do that, I have to calculate electric potential energy in...- Mr_Pu
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- Charge Proton Sphere Work Work done
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Inductance and Charge Redistribution
I tried applying loop law but I am not really sure we don't really have a closed loop here. I guess they're testing some concept here that I'm not very good at (Why do i keep coming back to mutual inductance for some reason:|) Any help will be appreciated:)- Ayesha02
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- Charge Inductance
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Understanding Capacitor Equations and Time Constants
Well i don't you to solve the question for me but I want you to clarify the concepts pertaining to this question. My question is how do I write a equation for the circuit since the there is same charge on one of the capacitors. While writing the equation should i put the voltage across the...- Gourab_chill
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- Capacitors Charge Circuits Time constant Voltage
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Max surface charge of a conductive plate
1. Can I use the surface charge equation: $$Q = \frac{Vk\epsilon_0A}{d}$$ Where V = Voltage, k = dielectric constant, ϵ0 = permittivity of free space , A = Area of plate and d = distance between plates. For a conductive plate within an electric field? My thinking is that if the plate is...- Bhope69199
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- Charge Electrostatics Max Plate Surface
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- Forum: Electromagnetism
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What is the reality of the Electric Force & Field?
Please help. Thank you.- Achintya
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- Charge Electric Electric force Electro dynamics Field Force Quantum and general physics Reality
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The meaning of the "physical" electron charge in Peskin (Chap 7)
On p. 246 in the Peskin QFT textbook, below is stated where Z3 is defined as the residue of the q2 = 0 pole, explicitly as $$Z_3=\frac{1}{1-\Pi(0)}$$ and e is the bare charge. In advance, the exact photon two point function is calculated as $$\frac{-ig_{\mu\nu}}{q^2(1-\Pi(q^2))}$$ Though...- niss
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- Charge Electron Peskin Physical
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Find the Electric potential from surfaces with uniform charge density
I do not have the solutions to this problem so I'm wondering if my attempt is correct. My attempt at solution: We have two surfaces which we can calculate the area of. I think we can use gauss law to find the electric field and then integrate the E-field to find the electric potential. So for...- goohu
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- Charge Charge density Density Electric Electric potential Potential Surfaces Uniform
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Interaction energy of two interpenetrating spheres of uniform charge density
I am trying to calculate the interaction energy of two interpenetrating spheres of uniform charge density. Here is my work: First I want to calculate the electric potential of one sphere as following; $$\Phi(\mathbf{r})=\frac{1}{4 \pi \epsilon_{0}} \int...- Johe
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- Advance physics Charge Charge density Density Elecricity Elecrostatics Energy Interaction Mathemathics Potential Spheres Uniform
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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Can we transfer the whole charge of a body to another body?
When I asked "Can we transfer the whole charge of a body to another body?" my colleague replied: "If charged body (say 5 Coulomb) is any charged conductor ##A##, it can be done by enclosing ##A## completely by second uncharged conductor ##B## and connecting them by a conducting wire ##B## will...- oliverkahn
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- Body Charge
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I Best Formula for Fitting Nuclear Charge Radius Data
Hello! Can someone point me towards some papers/readings providing formulas (derived theoretically or based on experimental data) for the nuclear charge radius? Almost all the papers where I found a formula for that are of the form ##aA^b+c##, where a, b and c are constants and A is the mass...- kelly0303
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- Charge Formula Nuclear Radius
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- Forum: High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics
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How Do Induced Charges Affect Conductors in Electrostatic Fields?
My first attempt at solving this was to calculate the induced charge in A by making ##V=0##: ##\frac{q_{A}}{4πεR_{1}}+\frac{q_{B}}{4πεR_{3}}=0## ##q_{A}=-q_{B}\frac{R_{1}}{R_{3}}## But that's not the answer. Any help is welcome!- RodolfoM
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- Charge Conductors Induced Induced charge
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Reducing the charge Q on an isolated charged conducting sphere to Q/8
It seems to me that one can obtain the required result by using just one neutral sphere and one ground wire. Let A be the charged sphere and B be the neutral one. Initially ##Q_A=Q## and ##Q_B=0##. put A and B in contact. As a result ##Q_A=Q/2## and ##Q_B=Q/2##. ground B, so that ##Q_B=0##...- FranzDiCoccio
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- Charge Charged Conducting Conducting sphere Electric charge Sphere
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Test charge velocity in Coulomb's Law
The force on a test charge Q due to source charge q, depends on both their velocities in addition to several other quantities. For electrostatics, the source charge is at rest (its velocity is zero) but the test charge may be moving. Then how does Coulomb's Law accommodate for this velocity of...- akhila_k
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- Charge Coulomb's law Law Test Velocity
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Electric field around a sphere with an internal charge distribution
I'm just going to skip some of the step since I only need help with understanding the last part. After rearranging the equation stated at "Relevant equation" (and skipping some steps) we will get: E * 4*pi*e0*R^2 = integral pv * 4*pi*R^2 dR E = 1/(4*pi*e0*R^2) * 4*pi * integral pv*R^2 dR E =...- goohu
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- Charge Charge distribution Distribution Electric Electric field Field Internal Sphere
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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What is the Total Capacitance After a Thread Cleanup?
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- capacitance charge
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How does this capacitor circuit not violate conservation of charge?
There must be something I'm not understanding about capacitors in series. I know that we can treat them as one equivalent capacitor with: (1) with 1/Ceq, (2) same Q as anyone of the capacitors, (3) and add up the Vs for the sum total V across them. If the equivalent capacitor (Ceq) would...- lightlightsup
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- Capacitor Charge Circuit Conservation Conservation of charge
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Query on electrochemistry: Vectorial charge transfer meaning
Hello guys! When talking about electrochemistry what is the difference between saying "electron transfer" and "vectorial electron transfer". It seems to me that "vectorial electron transfer" is just another fancy way of saying "electron transfer" but I am not quite sure if there is a kind of...- MarcoUscanga01
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- Charge Electrochemistry
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- Forum: Chemistry
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Solving Potential of a Charge Outside a Sphere with Green Functions
I was wondering if there is a way to deduce the solution of the potential of a charge outside a sphere given by the image method, though Green functions. Because of a Dirichlet condition (GD(R,r')=0), I know that a solution can be written as GD=Go+L, where ∇2L=0. But in order to approach this...- Mounice
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- Charge Electro dynamics Functions Green Green function Outside Potential Sphere
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Point Charge above an Infinite Plate
Merged thread deleted first post next post is the first post.- josh777
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- Charge Elecricity Elecrostatics Gauss Image Infinite Plate Point Point charge
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Understanding what a dipole's charge is
If they are equal and opposite, then wouldn't the net charge be zero? I don't know how else to reason this problem p = 0d or just 0- Jaccobtw
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- Charge
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Which surfaces get positively charge by grabbing (static electricity)
So is it becouse the material or becouse the fact that the balloon is the object that moves and the hair is static. and does every two objects that been grabed together will nacessrly continues each other. and also why does the minos of a bttary doesn't stick to the flower- danielhaish
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- Charge Electricity Static electricity Surfaces
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Electric field from a charge q1
Hi, I have a charge q1 = -10 * 10^9. The the coordinatesare (3,4)m. I found the electric field vector that is (-2160i -2880j) n/c. My questions is if I add a charge q2 to the the coordinates(0,0) is the electric field stay the same?- happyparticle
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- Charge Electric Electric field Electricity and magnetism Field
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Calculate the charge flowing in the coil if the field is removed
Hello So here is my question Not so sure how to approach this question This is what I have worked out so far which is the magnetic field strength of the solenoid, not sure if this comes in helpful though Thanks for any help!- Bolter
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- Charge Coil Field
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Flux due to a charge located at the corner of a cube
The correct answer is B, but I am not sure why. I have a few confusions regarding this problem. First of all, I had thought that we cannot use Gauss' Law to determine the flux through a SIDE of a cube since Gauss' Law only works for SURFACES. How can we determine how an electric field pierces a...- SmartAries
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- Charge Cube Electrostatic Flux Guass' law
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Why is the Answer C? Electric Field in Conductors
The answer according to the key is C. I thought the answer would be E since the electric field inside a conductor is always zero. Can someone explain why the answer is C?- SmartAries
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- Charge Conductor Conductors Electric Electric field Field
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Projects for Classic Charge Distributions
In my most recent post, I tried to investigate the V(r) verses “r” for several charge distributions on conductive paper. The discussion there made me realize that the common conductive paper activity is not suitable for doing that. Nevertheless, I am interested in doing projects where I can find...- Albertgauss
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- Charge Distributions Projects
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In electrostatics, what is meant by positive charges?
I am needing clarification for a concept. I understand that electrons carry a negative charge and that protons carry a positive charge. I also understand that a plastic rod picks up electrons when I rub it with a piece of wool. From the conservation of charge, the piece of wool must have a...- TheSecretPiePiece
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- Charge Charge carriers Charges Electrons Electrostatics Positive Protons
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B A doubt on the fundamental unit of charge
"a charge smaller than e has not been found. if one determines the amount of charge on any charged body like a charged sphere or charged drop) or any charged particle (like positron, a-particle) or any ion, then its charge is always found to be an integral multiple of e, i.e., e,3e; 4e,... No...- Rishabh Narula
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- Charge Doubt Fundamental Unit
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- Forum: High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics
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How do I find the other charge using electric potential?
I tried looking for the other charge using the equation k|q1||q2|/r^2 but it tells me that my answer is wrong- moeug1999
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- Charge Charges Physics Potentials
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Charge distribution among connected metal spheres -- Simple question
My answer was +Q/3. I was assuming that the charges would distributed themselves completely. But, apparently, I'm wrong? For example, if there were 12##e^-##s on Sphere C, then, in the first step in the system: the ##e^-##s would balance out until each sphere has 4 ##e^-##s each? What am I...- lightlightsup
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- Charge Charge distribution Distribution Spheres
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Checking if Drawing is Correct: Charge Enclosed & Radius
Firstly, I would like to check if I drew the diagram correctly: I'm unsure of the question's phrasing in this case. Should if the drawing is correct, (i) When radius is 1cm, charge enclosed = -10mC When radius is 3cm, charge enclosed is -10+10 +5? I'm unsure where the 5mC is here in this...- jisbon
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- Charge Drawing Radius
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I Electric Field Directly Ahead of or Behind a Moving Charge
Since it is stated that ##E'_x = E_x##, I am going to set a special case where ##z' = z = 0##, ##E_x## in (5.10) reduces to, ##E_x = \frac{1}{4 \pi \epsilon_0}\frac{Q}{x^2}## However, ##E'_x## in (5.13) reduces to, ##E'_x = \frac{1}{4 \pi \epsilon_0}\frac{Q}{\gamma^2 x'^2}## There is an...- shinobi20
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- Charge Electric Electric field Electromagetism Field Moving charge Special relativity
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Engineering Charge Redistribution in a Capacitor Bank/DAC
I have a question relating DAC architectures. The guts of the question are really to do with capacitors and charge. I want to see if my understanding is correct. This is not a homework question or anything, just thinking about how the circuit interacts. Setup: Consider the following setup...- CoolDude420
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- Capacitor Charge
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Accelerometer with a Charge: Measuring Acceleration?
Suppose we have an accelerometer carrying a charge. The charge density everywhere in the instrument is uniform, or at least what I mean to say is, the charge on any component is proportional to that component's mass. Now, in an inertial reference frame, we place the accelerometer in an electric...- Karl Coryat
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- Acceleration Accelerometer Charge Measuring
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- Forum: Electromagnetism
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What is the work done to move this Charge?
I found two formulas to calculate the work done. One is with this path integral: ## W_{AB}## = W(## r_A,r_B ##)=q* ## \int_{r_A}^{r_B} E*dr ## but here is the one I tried to use: ## W_{AB}## = q*Δ U = q*(## \frac {kQ} {r_A} ## - ## \frac {kQ} {r_B} ## ) Now here's my problem, what are...- Reneee
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- Charge Electromagnetism Work Work done
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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I Does the Charge Conjugation Operator Affect Gamma Matrices Similarly?
I have in my notes the charge conjugation operator converts the spinnor into its complex conjugate , ## C\begin{pmatrix} \varepsilon \\ \eta \end{pmatrix}=\begin{pmatrix} \varepsilon^{*}{} \\ \eta ^{*} \end{pmatrix}##when applied to gamma matrix from dirac equation does it do the same...- The black vegetable
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- Charge Charge conjugation Operator
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- Forum: High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics
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Potential and E field for a non homogeneous charge Density
Based on the conditions, I found that $$V(x)=\frac{a^2}{\pi^2} ρ_0sin(πx/a)$$ would be a solution to Laplace's equation for $$|x|\leq a$$ and $$V(x)=cx+d$$, where c and d are constants. From the boundary conditions, $$\frac{dV(a)}{dx}=\frac{a}{\pi} ρ_0cos(πa/a)=ac$$, $$c=\frac{a\rho}{\pi}$$ and...- Diracobama2181
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- Charge Charge density Density Field Homogeneous Potential
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The electric field of a piecewise uniform 1D charge distribution
This is not really homework, but I'm having trouble understanding it intuitively. I came across this when learning about the space charge layer of a diode. The solution I know simply uses the 1D form of Gauss's law: ##\vec{\nabla} \cdot \vec{E}## = ##\dfrac{\rho}{\epsilon_0}## becomes...- sudera
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- 1d Charge Charge distribution Diodes Distribution Electric Electric field Electromagnetism Field Uniform
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Calculating total charge when the electric field is given
I first tried to use the Gauss' law equation E.A = q/ε0 to find the total charge enclosed. The answer came out to be q(enclosed) = 4πqε0e^(-4r). So for r approaching infinity, q(enclosed) approached 0. Next, I tried the equation ∇·E = ρ/ε0, calculated rho to be -4qε0e^(-4r)/r^2 and total...- Saptarshi Sarkar
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- Charge Electric Electric field Field Total charge
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help