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    Electric Charge and Coulomb’s Law

    1. Of the charge Q initially on a tiny sphere, a portion q is to be transferred to a second, nearby


    sphere. Both spheres can be treated as particles. For what value of q/Q will the electrostatic
    force between the two spheres be maximized?
    2. What must be the distance between point charge q1 = 26.0 µC and point charge q2 = 47.0 µC
    for the electrostatic force between them to have a magnitude of 5.70 N?
    3. Two equally charged particles are held 3.2 × 10-3 m apart and then released from rest.
    The initial acceleration of the first particle is observed to be 7.0 m/s2 and that of the
    second to be 9.0 m/s2. If the mass of the first particle is 6.3 × 10-3 kg, what are (a) the
    mass of the second particle and (b) the magnitude of the charge of each particle?
    4. In the Fig. below, three charged particles lie on an x axis. Particles 1 and 2 are fixed in place.
    Particle 3 is free to move, but the net electrostatic force on it from particles 1 and 2 happens
    to be zero. If L23= L12, what is the ratio q1/q2?

    5. In the Fig. Below, four particles form a square. The charges are q1 = q4 = Q and q2 = q3 = q.
    (a) What is Q/q if the net electrostatic force on particles 1 and 4 is zero? (b) Is there any
    value of q that makes the net electrostatic force on each of the four particles zero? Explain.

    6. 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?
    7. Two free point charges +q and +4q are a distance L apart. A third charge is placed so
    that the entire system is in equilibrium. (a) Find the location, magnitude, and sign of the
    third charge. (b) Show the equilibrium of the system is unstable.
    8. An electron is in a vacuum near Earth’s surface and located at y = 0 on a vertical y axis. At
    what value of y should a second electron be placed such that its electrostatic force on the first
    electron balances the gravitational force on the first electron?
    9. In the Fig. below, the particles have charges q1 = q2 = 100 nC and q3 = q4 = 200 nC, and
    distance a = 5.0 cm. What are the (a) x and (b) y components of the net electrostatic force on
    particle 3?

    10. In the Fig. below, two tiny conducting balls of identical mass m and identical charge q hang
    from nonconducting threads of length L. Assume that  is so small that tan can be replaced
    by its approximate equal, sin.

    1/3
    𝑞2 𝐿
    (a) Show that, for equilibrium, 𝑥 = (2𝜋𝜀 ) , where x is the separation between the balls.
    0 𝑚𝑔

    (b) Explain what happens to the balls of if one of them is discharged (loses its charge q to,
    say, the ground). (b) Find the new equilibrium separation x, using the given values of L
    and m and the computed value of |q|.
    (c) If L = 120 cm, m = 10 g, and x= 5.0 cm, what is q ?
    11. Two tiny, spherical water drops, with identical charges of -1.00 × 10-16 C, have a center-to-
    center separation of 1.00 cm. (a) What is the magnitude of the electrostatic force acting
    between them? (b) How many excess electrons are on each drop, giving it its charge
    imbalance?

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