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Practice Problem Sheet - 3 (EM)

The document is a practice problem sheet for a physics course focusing on electric potential in electricity and magnetism. It includes various problems related to calculating electric potential, work done, and electric fields due to point charges and arrangements of charges. The problems require understanding of concepts such as electric potential energy, charge interactions, and the effects of electric fields.

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Practice Problem Sheet - 3 (EM)

The document is a practice problem sheet for a physics course focusing on electric potential in electricity and magnetism. It includes various problems related to calculating electric potential, work done, and electric fields due to point charges and arrangements of charges. The problems require understanding of concepts such as electric potential energy, charge interactions, and the effects of electric fields.

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Practice Problem sheet – 3

Faculty: Hasibul Hassan Rizvee (HaHR)


Course: PHY 2105/PHY105
Trimester: Fall 2024
Topic: Electric potential (Electricity and Magnetism)

1. Four charges +2q, +4q, +2q and –2q are placed at the corners of a square. (i) Draw the
arrangement of the charges (ii) Calculate the net electric potential at the intersection of the
diagonals of the square of side 10 cm if q =57×10−9 C.

2. Calculate (i) the potential at a point due a charge of 4 × 10−7 C located at 0.09 m away (ii) work
done in bringing a charge of 2 × 10−9 C from infinity to the point.

3. Calculate the electric potential at a point P, located at the centre of the square of point charges
shown in

the figure.

4. In Fig. below, what is the net electric potential at point P due to the four particles if V = 0 at
infinity, q = 5.00 fC, and d =4.00 cm?

5. The electric potential difference between the ground and a cloud in a particular thunderstorm is
1.2 ×109 V. In the unit electron-volts, what is the magnitude of the change in the electric
potential energy of an electron that moves between the ground and the cloud?

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6. Two equal charges of 10 × 10-5 C are shown in fig below; each produces an electric field at point
P on Y axis. (a) What is the magnitude of the electric potential at P?

10 cm

10 cm 10 cm

7. A charged particle produces an electric field with a magnitude of 5.0 N/C at a point that is 60 cm
away from the particle. What is the magnitude of the particle’s electric potential and charge?

8. Fair weather atmospheric electricity 100 N/C is acting downward 100 km high in the ionosphere.
What is the ionosphere voltage required?

9. The ammonia molecule NH3 has a permanent electric dipole moment equal to 1.47 D, where
1D= 1 Debye unit = 3.34 × 10-30 Cm. Calculate the electric potential due to an ammonia
molecule at a point
52.0 nm away along the axis of the dipole. (Set V= 0 at infinity)

10. A proton (mass mp, charge +e) and an alpha particle (mass 4mp, charge +2e) approach one
another with the same initial speed v=2x108 m/s from an initially large distance. How close will
these two particles get to one another before turning around?

11. An alpha particle (two protons, two neutrons) moves into a stationary gold atom (79 protons, 118
neutrons), passing through the electron region that surrounds the gold nucleus like a shell and
headed directly toward the nucleus (Fig. below). The alpha particle slows until it momentarily
stops when its center is at radial distance r =9.23 fm from the nuclear center. Then it moves back
along its incoming path. What was the kinetic energy Ki of the alpha particle when it was
initially far away?

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12. A charge of -1.0 μC is located on the y-axis at the coordinates (0,1) while a second charge of
+3.0 μC is located on the x-axis at the coordinates (3,0) from the origin. Determine the value of
the following quantities at the origin (i) the electric potential (assuming the potential is zero at
infinite distance), and
(ii) the energy needed to bring a +3.0 μC charge to this position from infinitely far away.

13. Figure shows an uneven arrangement of electrons (e) and protons (p) on a circular arc of radius
r=2.00 cm, with angles =300, =500, =300, and =200. What is the magnitude of the net
electric

potential produced at the center of the arc?

14. The three particles are fixed in place and have charges q1= q2= +e and q3=+2e. Distance a=
6.00 µm. What are the magnitude of the net electric potential at point P due to the particles?

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15. When two electron moves from A to B along an electric field line in below figure, the electric
field does 3.94x10-19 J of work on it. What are the electric potential differences (i) VB-VA, (ii)
VC-VA, and (iii) VC-VB?

16. Figure below shows a rectangular array of charged particles fixed in place, with distance a= 39.0
cm and the charges shown as integer multiples of q1=3.40 pC and q2 =6.00 pC. With V=0 at
infinity, what

is the net electric potential at the rectangle’s center?

17. In the figure below, how much work must we do to bring a particle, of charge Q=+16e and
initially at rest, along the dashed line from infinity to the indicated point near two fixed particles
of charges q1=+4e and q2= -q1/3? Distance d=1.40 cm, θ1= 43o, and θ2= 60o.

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