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Section 15.3 Coulombs Law electrons are placed at the South Pole. What is
the resulting compressional force on Earth?
1. A 4.5 109 C charge is located 3.2 m from a
2.8 109 C charge. Find the electrostatic force 8. An electron is released a short distance above
exerted by one charge on the other. Earths surface. A second electron directly below
it exerts an electrostatic force on the first
2. Two neighboring cells are ionized electron just great enough to cancel the
(charged) by x-radiation. (a) If the charge on gravitational force on it. How far below the first
each cell is equal to 1.60 1014 C and the cells electron is the second?
are 2.5 m apart, what is the force exerted by
each cell? (b) If the distance between the cells is 9. Two identical conducting spheres are placed
doubled, what happens to the force between with their centers 0.30 m apart. One is given a
them? charge of 12 x 109 C and the other a charge of
18 109 C. (a) Find the electrostatic force
3. An alpha particle (charge = +2.0e) is sent at exerted by one sphere on the other. (b) The
high speed toward a gold nucleus (charge = spheres are connected by a conducting wire.
+79e). What is the electrical force acting on the After equilibrium has occurred, find the
alpha particle when it is 2.0 1014 m from the electrostatic force between the two.
gold nucleus?
10. Calculate the magnitude and direction of the
4. Determine what the mass of a proton would Coulomb force on each of the three charges in
be if the gravitational force between two of them Figure P15.10.
were equal to the electrical force between them.
Figure P15.14
Figure P15.12
Figure P15.15
Figure P15.24
Section 15.8 The Van de Graaff Generator
43. A point charge q is located at the center of a 47. Two protons in an atomic nucleus are
spherical shell of radius a, which has a charge typically separated by a distance of 2 1015 m.
q uniformly distributed on its surface. Find the The electric repulsion force between the protons
electric field (a) for all points outside the is huge, but the attractive nuclear force is even
spherical shell and (b) for a point inside the shell stronger, and keeps the nucleus from bursting
a distance r from the center. apart. What is the magnitude of the electrical
force between two protons separated by 2.00
44. Use Gausss law and the fact that the electric 1015 m?
field inside any closed conductor in electrostatic
equilibrium is zero to show that any excess 48. In the Bohr theory of the hydrogen atom, an
charge placed on the conductor must reside on electron moves in a circular orbit about a proton,
its surface. where the radius of the orbit is 0.53 1010 m.
(a) Find the electrostatic force acting on each
45. An infinite plane conductor has charge particle. (b) If this force causes the centripetal
spread out on its surface as shown in Figure acceleration of the electron, what is the speed of
P15.45. Use Gausss law to show that the the electron?
electric field at any point outside the conductor
is given by E = /0 , where is the charge per 49. Three point charges are aligned along the x
unit area on the conductor. (Hint: Choose a axis as shown in Figure P15.49. Find the electric
gaussian surface in the shape of a cylinder with field at the position x = +2.0 m, y = 0.
one end inside the conductor and one end
outside the conductor.)
53. A solid conducting sphere of radius 2.00 cm
has a charge of 8.00 C. A conducting spherical
shell of inner radius 4.00 cm and outer radius
5.00 cm is concentric with the solid sphere and
has a charge of 4.00 C. Find the electric field
at (a) r = 1.00 cm, (b) r = 3.00 cm, (c) r = 4.50
cm, and (d) r = 7.00 cm from the center of this
Figure P15.49 charge configuration.
50. A small 2.00-g plastic ball is suspended by a 54. Two small silver spheres, each with a mass
20.0-cm-long string in a uniform electric field, of 100 g, are separated by 1.00 m. Calculate the
as shown in Figure P15.50. If the ball is in fraction of the electrons in one sphere that must
equilibrium when the string makes a 15.0 angle be transferred to the other in order to produce an
with the vertical as indicated, what is the net attractive force of 1.00 104 N (about a ton)
charge on the ball? between the spheres. (The number of electrons
per atom of silver is 47, and the number of
atoms per gram is Avogadros number divided
by the molar mass of silver, 107.87.)
Figure P15.57
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