Assignmnet 1 APPLIED PHYSICS

Applied Physics
Assignment 1
Q1. A particle of charge +3.00 × 10-6 C is 12.0 cm distant from a second particle of charge -1.50 × 10 -
6
C. Calculate the magnitude of the electrostatic force between the particles.
Q2. How many electrons would have to be removed from a coin to leave it with a charge of +1.0 ×10
-7
C?
Q3. Earth’s atmosphere is constantly bombarded by cosmic ray protons that originate somewhere in
space. If the protons all passed through the atmosphere, each square meter of Earth’s surface would
intercept protons at the average rate of 1500 protons per second. What would be the electric current
intercepted by the total surface area of the planet?
Q4. Calculate the number of coulombs of positive charge in 250 cm 3 of (neutral) water. (Hint: A
hydrogen atom contains one proton; an oxygen atom contains eight protons.)
Q5. How far apart must two protons be if the magnitude of the electrostatic force acting on either one
due to the other is equal to the magnitude of the gravitational force on a proton at Earth’s surface?
Q6. A charge of 6.0 µC is to be split into two parts that are then separated by 3.0 mm. What is the
maximum possible magnitude of the electrostatic force between those two parts?
Q7. A 100 W lamp has a steady current of 0.83 A in its filament. How long is required for 1 mol of
electrons to pass through the lamp?
Q8. A charged particle produces an electric field with a magnitude of 35.0 N/C at a point that is 60 cm
away from the particle. What is the magnitude of the particle’s charge?
Q9. What is the magnitude of a point charge that would create an electric field of 1.00 N/C at points
1.00 m away?
Q10. Charge is uniformly distributed around a ring of radius R = 2.40 cm, and the resulting electric
field magnitude E is measured along the ring’s central axis (perpendicular to the plane of the ring). At
what distance from the ring’s center is E maximum?
Q11. A thin nonconducting rod with a uniform distribution of positive charge Q is bent into a complete
circle of radius R. The central perpendicular axis through the ring is a z axis, with the origin at the
center of the ring. What is the magnitude of the electric field due to the rod at (a) z = 0 and (b) z = ∞?
(c) In terms of R, at what positive value of z is that magnitude maximum? (d) If R = 2.00 cm and Q =
4.00 mC, what is the maximum magnitude?
Q12. At what distance along the central perpendicular axis of a uniformly charged plastic disk of radius
0.600 m is the magnitude of the electric field equal to one-half the magnitude of the field at the center
of the surface of the disk?
Q13. A disk of radius 2.5 cm has a surface charge density of 5.3 µC/m 2 on its upper face. What is the
magnitude of the electric field produced by the disk at a point on its central axis at distance z = 12 cm
from the disk?
Q14. The electric field in an xy plane produced by a positively charged particle is 72(4.0ì + 3.0ĵ ) N/C
at the point (3.0, 3.0) cm and at the point (2.0, 0) cm.What are the (a) x and (b) y coordinates of the
particle? (c) What is the charge of the particle?
Q15. An electric dipole with dipole moment
p = (3.00iˆ+ 4.00jˆ) (1.24 × 10-30 C.m)
is in an electric field (a) What is the potential energy of the electric dipole? (b) What is the torque
acting on it? (c) If an external agent turns the dipole until its electric dipole moment
p = (-4.00iˆ+ 3.00jˆ) (1.24 × 10-30 C.m)
is how much work is done by the agent?

Q16. An electron on the axis of an electric dipole is 25 nm from the center of the dipole. What is the
magnitude of the electrostatic force on the electron if the dipole moment is 3.6 × 10 -29 C m? Assume
that 25 nm is much larger than the separation of the charged particles that form the dipole.
Q17. How much work is required to turn an electric dipole 180° in a uniform electric field of
magnitude E = 46.0 N/C if the dipole moment has a magnitude of p = 3.02 × 10 -25 C m and the initial
angle is 64°?
Q18. Find an expression for the oscillation frequency of an electric dipole of dipole moment and
rotational inertia I for small amplitudes of oscillation about its equilibrium position in a uniform
electric field of magnitude E.
Q19. A spherical water drop 1.20 mm in diameter is suspended in calm air due to a downward-directed
atmospheric electric field of magnitude E = 462 N/C. (a) What is the magnitude of the gravitational
force on the drop? (b) How many excess electrons does it have?
Q20. An electric dipole consists of charges +2e and -2e separated by 0.78 nm. It is in an electric field
of strength 3.4 × 106 N/C. Calculate the magnitude of the torque on the dipole when the dipole
moment is (a) parallel to, (b) perpendicular to, and (c) antiparallel to the electric field.

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