Charged Definition and 1000 Threads

Homework Statement A charged particle having charge q and mass m is projected into a region of uniform electric field of strength E, with velocity v perpendicular to E. Throughout the motion apart from electric force particle also experiences a dissipative force of constant magnitude qE and...

Wrote my question up in Latex Update: I have corrected the mistake when I stated the "textbook" version of the equation that the problem requires to be used. I have reposted the pdf with the same name.

[b]1. The problem A velocity selector consists of a parallel plate capacitor placed in an outside magnetic field (see figure). Charged particles entering the velocity selector experience an electric and a magnetic force (neglect effects due to gravity). Given is the setup in the figure below...

Homework Statement We have a charged straight wire with radius ra = 0.2 cm and with charge ta = 3nanoC/m. Around the wire there are two hollow concentric cylinders, so that the wire is in their axis. Let the charge on the first cylinder be of radius rb = 3cm and its charge tb = -1.5nC/m and on...

Hello Physics Forums! I've been educating myself on electrostatics, electronics, and electromagnetics and I have come to the topic of plasmas. I understand that plasmas are essentially charged gases - but their behavior is so disparate from regular gases that they are classified as the fourth...

Homework Statement This is the theory for a laboratory session. If we have two hollow cylinders, one with radius r1 and the other with radius r7, the center of the first one being placed at a distance d from the center of the second one, what are the surfaces having the same electric...

Homework Statement A charged particle (q), mass (m) is released from a frictionless inclined plane of angle θ under influence of Earth's acceleration (g) and magnetic field (B) perpendicular to (g) and plane of motion of particle. The particle slides down distance "l" along incline and then...

Homework Statement An infinite, charged plane/plate has a uniform positive charge density of σ. Another positively charged particle is found at a distant of D from the plane. In point P, positioned between the two, the electric field equals 0. A. What is the distance between point P and...

Homework Statement Magnitude of electric field between two concentric oppositely charged spheres. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution So I first went with the simple electric field equation E=V/d So I have the potential difference V between the two sphere...

It is well known that under electrostatic conditions, a neutral conductor when placed in an external electric field encloses a net zero electric field within it. But, do you think that the electric field within a charged conductor is zero, when it is placed in an external electric field...

Homework Statement A flat ring of inner radius R1 and outer radius R2 carries a uniform surface charge density σ. Determine the electric potential at points along the axis (the x axis). [Hint: Try substituting variables.] Homework Equations V = (kQ)/r The Attempt at a Solution...

We had this ques. in a test - "can a changing magnetic field change the speed of a charged particle". The ans given to us was "no because it's velocity is perpendicular to the magnetic force due to the mag field" but a friend of mine wrote that a changing mag. field will induce an emf which...

Imagine two parallel conducting plates set at a distance of several meters. If one charges the two plates simultaneously then one would expect a small delay before they started repelling each other due to the time it takes changes in the static field to propagate from one plate to the other...

It is true that under ELECTROSTATIC CONDITIONS, excess charge on a conductor always resides on the surface of the conductor because if they were inside it, there would be an electric field inside the conductor which would set the free electrons into motion. They distribute uniformly over the...

Homework Statement A long conducting cylinder bearing a charge \lambda per unit length is oriented parallel to a grounded conducting plane of infinite extent. The axis of the cylinder is at distance x_0 from the plane, and the radius of the cylinder is a . Find the location of the line...

Can anyone explain this excerpt to me? I'm lost on how the positive and negative charges push each other away instead of attract. Thanks! P.s I think this goes in this forum.

Well the main problem here its once a i get the integral i do not how to put dy as function of thetha and then integrate ; at the end that's what i get Ex=integral (dE*cos\theta)=(\lambda/4\pi\epsilon) times the integral of cos(\theta)dy/x^2+y^2 where i can easily find the cosine and...

Homework Statement Two charged objects are separated by a distance of L=0.4650 m as shown in the diagram. Object Q1 has a charge of +5.250 nC. Object Q2 has a charge of +2.960 nC. A) What is the magnitude and direction of the electric field at Point A, which is located a distance...

Homework Statement Two infinite conducting planes are held at zero potential at z=-d and z=d. An infinite sheet with uniform charge per unit area σ is interposed between them at an arbitrary point. a) Find the charge density induced on each grounded plane and the potential at the position of...

Suppose you have an electron moving at constant velocity. This new area that it is moving into initially had 0 electric flux through it but now that the electron moves to that location the electric flux is changing which in turn cause a magnetic flux ad infinitum. So why must a charge be...

Does anyone here know a source, where the equation of motion for a massless charged particle (which of course does not exist in Nature as far as we know) in a homogeneous electric field is actually solved? I googled, and there are some papers about this, but the equations are never actually...

There are two electrically charged objects that are placed 6 cm away from each other. Each object has an electrical charge of +1 microColoumbs and a mass of 1 milligram. If one object is fixed in place, how far does the other go in 2 milliseconds? So I'm given the charge, distance between the...

http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/phys208/exercises/kevan/efield1.html I'm having trouble understanding the derivative notation. I know that "dE" and dQ" have to do with the derivative, but what exactly does that mean in the context of this problem? For some reason I find it difficult to...

Homework Statement Two particles, each of mass m and having charge q, are suspended by strings of length l from a common point. Find the angle θ which each string makes with the vertical. Homework Equations F_e = k \frac{q^2}{r^2}, \quad F_G = -mg, \quad F_T = \text{tension on string}...

Homework Statement A voltage of 14 V is placed on a capacitor with C = 113 pF (picofarads). (a) What is the charge on the capacitor? (b) How much energy is stored in the capacitor? I believe I have the correct equation but I'm not sure about the final answer because of the picofarads...

Homework Statement An infinite line of charge with linear density λ1 = 6.2 μC/m is positioned along the axis of a thick insulating shell of inner radius a = 2.7 cm and outer radius b = 4.4 cm. The insulating shell is uniformly charged with a volume density of ρ = -552 μC/m3.1) What is λ2, the...

Does metal powder in water disperse when water is being electrically charged? I think that it might not disperse since water is also charged, the repulsion of water molecule will force it back making net repulsion equal to zero. Am I correct? Thanks for answering. Here is the diagram that I...

Two circular disks, each of area 2.10×10-4 m2, are situated parallel to one another. The distance between them is small compared with their radii. Both disks are uniformly charged; their charges per unit area are σ = 5.10×10-5 C/m2 for one and -σ = -5.10×10-5 C/m2 for the other. Compute the...

I understand that voltage depends on how far the electrons are, so for a sphere it would be q*k / r. But what if a sphere with 100kv , then we put with contact to it a metal box , becoming on body, will the volt remain 100kv

Charged sphere hanging from a string--Find the charge? A small, plastic sphere of mass m = 126 g is attached to a string as shown in the figure. There is an electric field of 151 N/C directed along the + x axis. If the string makes an angle 30 degrees with the y-axis when the sphere is in...

Homework Statement Positive charge Q is uniformly distributed around a semicircle of radius a. Find the magnitude of the electric field at the center of curvature P. Express your answer in terms of the given quantities and appropriate constants. Homework Equations The Attempt...

I have read that in electrostatic equilibrium, their are no electric fields or else the charges would be moving. So given a positively charged spherical shell, the positive charges would repel each other and reside on the outside, causing the shell to be in electrostatic equilibrium. But if...

Hello all, I am new to PF; this is my first post. I am currently taking a physics class on electricity and magnetism. I am trying to find an equation to calculate the final position of a charged particle p, given that there are n other particles. Known: + initial (positions and...

If we have a uniformly charged spherical shell, supposing that the shell is non-conducting, could we have any electric field inside the sphere? Why?

Homework Statement Hi there! Here is a problem from our 1st year course. We have covered the basics on charges and Coulomb's Law. However our prof said he designed the following question to be "deliberately obscure"! Two charges of 4.00μC are fixed in space, Q1 at (0,0,0) and Q2 at...

Homework Statement Homework Equations See above The Attempt at a Solution I messed with this for hours. I also searched all over the web and can't find anything that is similar. None of the problems I could find gave a value, they just gave lambda. Anyway, I have no idea what...

Homework Statement Two equal and opposite charged objects of magnitude 2C and mass 2kg are attached to a spring of spring constant 4 N/m in the natural length of the spring. The system is suddenly placed in a uniform electric field of field strength 5 N/C in the direction of electric field...

Assume 5 charged particles (charge 1) constrained to live on the surface of a sphere are in a configuration that minimizes electrostatic potential energy. Are there configurations that are stable but that are not the minimum energy configuration? A simple computer program could quickly(?)...

Homework Statement Find the potential outside a charged metal sphere (charge Q, radius R) placed in an otherwise uniform electric field E0. Explain clearly where you are setting the zero of potential. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution My only problem here is that I...

Besides proton therapy: What are charged particle beams currently used for and what new uses could they have?.

here is my question,a simple one that is :- why with the movement of charged particles a magnetic force develops through it?is it have any relation with quantum?explain me all about it?

Just doing some homework with magnetic fields and was just wondering, why is a charged particle affected by a magnetic field only when its in motion? Physics teacher didn't know so, just wondering if any of you do.

Hello there! This is my first post here, hopefully I am not posting in the wrong place. Also, I am an engineer and have not used this stuff for years, so please be patient with me, I am pretty sure that my question is stupid :-) I would like to develop a simulation code for charged particles...

Homework Statement A Kaon (k0) decays into two charged pions (π+ & π-), what is the minimum momentum required for the kaon so that none of the pions move backwards (in the opposite direction of the kaon) in the laboratory frame. Homework Equations Conservation of momentum...

Homework Statement I've to demonstrate the electric potential that a charge q feels when it's broght from infinite to a point z. The problem is that every demonstration i found out there starts with the definition of potential eletric as dV = k. dq/ r²; but i cannot use that, 'cause my...

Homework Statement Two points, each of charge Q, are fixed at either end of a frictionless rod of length 2R. Another point charge, of charge q (not Q) is free to move along the rod. Show that if charge q is displaced a small distance x (0<x<<R) from the centre of the rod, it will undergo...

Homework Statement Two particles with a similar charge are held at a distance of 3.2*10^-3 m and then released. The acceleration of the first particle is measured at 7.0 m/s^2, and for the second at 9.0 m?s^2. The mass of the first particle is 6.3*10^-7. What is the mass of the second...

Homework Statement Find the electric field at point p 5cm away from a 10cm line with a uniform charge of 2x10^-4C. so its uniformly charged from 0 - 10cm and then point p is at 15cm This question is broken down into 4 step by step parts: first is to consider 100 individual...

Homework Statement Homework Equations Q=CThe Attempt at a Solution a) I want to say that since both have the same potentials then it is similar to a parallel circuit where the charges can differ on each capacitor. If i think of point A as an input and point B as an output then the potential...

Hello, I am facing a paradox, well it seems like one, resolving the interaction force between two equally charged plates each bearing a positive charge. Let us assume this as Q, and plates having area A. On one hand , we can claim the force = Q^2/2Ae0 where e0 is the vacuum permittivity...