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The document is a worksheet containing 17 free-response questions related to electric fields and point charges. It includes various scenarios involving calculations of electric field magnitudes and directions, forces on charges, and the effects of multiple charges on electric fields. Answers to the questions are also provided, detailing the results of the calculations.

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Electric Field - Worksheet

The document is a worksheet containing 17 free-response questions related to electric fields and point charges. It includes various scenarios involving calculations of electric field magnitudes and directions, forces on charges, and the effects of multiple charges on electric fields. Answers to the questions are also provided, detailing the results of the calculations.

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Electric Fields - Worksheet

17 Free-Response Questions

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1. A force of 100N is directed north on a -20 μC


point charge. What is the magnitude and direction
of the electric field at this point?
4.0 x 106 m/s2. What is the magnitude and
direction of the electric field?

2. A positive charge of 50 μC is placed in an electric


field of 50,000 N/C directed upward. What mass 4. A +40 μC point charge is placed at the origin.
should the charge have to remain suspended in the Calculate the magnitude and direction of the
air? electric field created by the point charge at the
following locations: (a) Point P (5m, 0). (b) Point S
(3m, 4m).

3. An electron is released from rest in a uniform


electric field and accelerates to the east at a rate of 5. An electron, initially at rest, is placed in an
electric field of 2 x 104 N/C directed to the west.
The electric field is created by two parallel plates What will be the magnitude of the new electric
with a hole at the center of the positively charged field if (a) the magnitude of the point charge
plate. The distance between the plates is 1cm. doubles in value? (b) the distance between the
(a) What is the acceleration of the electron due to charge and point X doubles? (c) the distance
the electric field? (b) What will be the speed of the between the charge and point X reduces by a
electron after it leaves the hole traveling a distance factor of 3? (d) the magnitude of the charge triples
of 1 cm? and the distance is reduced to 1/4 of its original
value?

6. A +200 μC is placed at the origin and a -300 μC is 8. Two identical point charges with a magnitude of
placed 1m to the right of it. What is the magnitude +100 μC are separated by a distance of 1m along
and direction of the electric field midway between the x-axis. (a) At what point along this axis will the
the two charges and 30 cm to the right of the net electric field be equal to zero? (b) If the 2nd
negative charge? charge doubles to +200 μC, where along the x-axis
relative to the 1st charge will the net electric field
be equal to zero?

7. The electric field at point X which is 2 meters to


the right of a certain positive charge is 100 N/C.
9. Three identical point charges with a magnitude 11. Four identical point charges of magnitude +100
of -100 μC form an equilateral triangle. The μC form a square with a side length of 1 meter.
distance between each point charge is 1 meter. What is the magnitude and direction of the net
Point P is the midpoint of Q1 and Q3. Calculate the electric field at the center of the square?
magnitude and direction of the net electric field at
point P.

12. A +40 μC is located at the origin and a +30 μC


10. An unknown charge placed at the origin exerts
charge is located at (3m, -2m). Calculate the
a downward force of 25N on a +40 μC charge that
magnitude and direction of the net electric field at
is located at (0, 60cm) relative to the origin.
point P (3m, 0).
(a) Calculate the magnitude of the electric field
acting on the +40 μC. (b) What is the magnitude
and sign of the unknown charge?
13. A +200 μC charge and a -200 μC charge is -80 μC charge is located at (5m, 0). What is the
located at (0, 3m) and (0, -3m) respectively. magnitude and direction of the net electric field at
Calculate the magnitude and direction of the net point P (0, 4m)?
electric field at point P (4m, 0).

16. A square is formed using a +100 nC charge at


14. A +900 μC charge with a spherical mass of 1kg the origin, another +100 nC charge at (0, -1m), a
is suspended vertically on a string. A horizontal -100 nC charge at (1m, 0), and point P at (1m, -1m).
electric field of 1 x 104 N/C is applied causing the What is the magnitude and direction of the net
charge to be lifted slightly upward to the right. electric field vector at point P?
Calculate the tension force in the string as well as
the angle that the string makes with the vertical
when the system reaches equilibrium.

15. A +50 μC charge is located at the origin and a


17. A -10 nC point charge is placed at the origin.
Calculate the magnitude and direction of the
electric field at point P (3m, 4m).
Answers:

1. 5 x 106 N/C directed south.


2. 0.255 Kg
3. 2.27 x 10-5 N/C due west.
4a. 14,400 N/C directed east.
4b. 14,400 N/C at 53.10 above the +x-axis.
5a. 3.52 x 1015 m/s2
5b. 8.39 x 106 m/s
6a. 1.8 x 107 N/C due east.
6b. 2.89 x 107 N/C due west.
7a. 200 N/C
7b. 25 N/C
7c. 900 N/C
7d. 4,800 N/C
8a. 0.5m to the right of the 1st charge.
8b. 0.414m to the right of the 1st charge.
9. 1.2 x 106 N/C due north.
10a. 6.25 x 105 N/C
10b. -25 μC
11. Enet = 0
12. 78,462 N/C at 59.30 above the +x-axis.
13. 86,400 N/C directed south.
14. 13.3 N at 42.60 east of north.
15. 22,000 N/C at 510 above the +x-axis.
16. 1,350 N/C at 25.50 above the +x-axis.
17. 3.6 N/C at 2330 counterclockwise from the +x-axis. Enet = -2.16i – 2.88j.

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