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F22 204B Week3 PracticeProblems Arpin

This document contains 8 practice problems about electric fields and continuous charge distributions: 1. It asks about the electric field and force on a proton from a segmented wire where the segment is shrunk or stretched. 2. It asks for the electric field from a thin, uniformly charged rod and its behavior at large distances. 3. It asks to calculate the electric field from a bent, uniformly charged rod at the origin. 4. It asks for the electric field and force on a proton between two oppositely charged rings. 5. It asks for the electric field from two oppositely charged rods placed side by side at different distances. 6. It asks to determine the diameter

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F22 204B Week3 PracticeProblems Arpin

This document contains 8 practice problems about electric fields and continuous charge distributions: 1. It asks about the electric field and force on a proton from a segmented wire where the segment is shrunk or stretched. 2. It asks for the electric field from a thin, uniformly charged rod and its behavior at large distances. 3. It asks to calculate the electric field from a bent, uniformly charged rod at the origin. 4. It asks for the electric field and force on a proton between two oppositely charged rings. 5. It asks for the electric field from two oppositely charged rods placed side by side at different distances. 6. It asks to determine the diameter

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Week 3: The Electric Field of Contin-

uous Charge Distributions


Physics 204B
Paul Arpin

1. A small segment of wire contains 10 nC of charge.


(a) The segment is shrunk to one-third of its original length. What is the ratio λf /λi ,
where λi and λf are the initial and final linear charge densities?
(b) A proton is very far from the wire. What is the ratio Ff /Fi of the electric force on
the proton after the segment is shrunk to the force before the segment was shrunk?
(c) Suppose the original segment of wire is stretched to 10 times its original length. How
much charge must be added to the wire to keep the linear charge density unchanged?
2. 23.43: (Video Solution provided) The figure shows a thin rod of length L with total
charge Q.

(a) Find an expression for the electric field strength at point P on the axis of the rod
at distance r from the center.
(b) Verify that your answer has the expected behavior if r >> L.
(c) Evaluate E at r = 3.0 cm if L = 5.0 cm and Q = 3.0 nC.
3. 23.48: A plastic rod with linear charge density λ is bent into the quarter circle shown
in the figure. We want to find the electric field at the origin.
(a) Write the expression for the x- and y-components of the electric field at the origin
due to a small piece of charge at angle θ.
Hint: A small piece of arc length ∆s spans angle ∆θ = ∆s/R, where R is the
radius.
(b) Write, but do not evaluate, definite integrals for the x- and y-components of the net
electric field at the origin.
(c) Evaluate the integrals and write E⃗ net in component form.
4. 23.14: Two 10-cm-diameter charged rings face each other, 20 cm apart. The left ring is
charged to −20 nC and the right ring is charged to +20 nC.
⃗ both magnitude and direction, at the midpoint between
(a) What is the electric field E,
the two rings?
(b) What is the force on a proton at the midpoint?
5. 23.9: A 10-cm-long thin glass rod uniformly charged to +10 nC and a 10-cm-long thin
plastic rod uniformly charged to −10 nC are placed side by side, 4.0 cm apart. What
are the electric field strengths E1 to E3 at distances 1.0 cm, 2.0 cm and 3.0 cm from the
glass rod along the line connecting the midpoints of the two rods?
6. 23.22: Two circular disks spaced 0.50 mm apart form a parallel-plate capacitor. Trans-
ferring 3.0 × 109 electrons from one disk to the other causes the electric field strength to
be 2.0 × 105 N/C. What are the diameters of the disks?
7. A parallel-plate capacitor consists of two square plates, size L × L, separated by a
distance d. The plates are given charge ±Q. What is the ratio Ef /Ei of the final to
initial electric field strengths if (a) Q is doubled, (b) L is doubled, and (c)d is doubled?
Each part changes only one quantity; the other quantities have their initial values.
8. 23.23: A parallel-plate capacitor is formed from two 6.0-cm-diameter electrodes spaced
2.0 mm apart. The electric field strength inside the capacitor is 1.0 × 106 N/C. What is
the charge (in nC) on each electrode?

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