Ihw 3

Problems 3
Rules for Quizzes and Examinations:

1. No cell phones.
2. No communication between students.
3. A student can use only his/her calculator.
4. No passing of anything among students, including a dictionary, calculator, pen, pencil, ruler,
eraser, the periodic table, etc.
5. A student can take only:
a pen,
a pencil,
a ruler,
an eraser,
spare pens and pencils,
a calculator (not a cell phone),
6. A student cannot take:
any paper,
dictionary.
cell phone (even as a calculator).
7. Pay attention: you must learn by heart all terms and constants used in the problems of this
Module. You cannot have any background materials, tables with constants etc.
Problems
You must commit to your memory the following information:

g=9.8 m/s2 - the gravitational acceleration
TK=TC+273.15K - the Kelvin and Celsius scales
kB =1.38·10-23 J/K - the Boltzmann constant
Na=6.02·1023 1/mol - the Avogadro number
k=8.987·10 N·m /C
9 2 2
- the Coulomb constant
0=8.854·10 C /N·m
-12 2 2
- the electric permeability of free space
Commit to your memory the following table:
Commit to your memory the following table:

Electric Field
1
Two 2 C point charges are located on the x axis. One is at x =1 m, and the other is at x=-1 m.
(a) Determine the electric field at point with coordinates x = 0.5 m and y=0.5m.
(b) Calculate the electric force on a 3 mC charge placed at x = 1m and y=0.5m.
2
A rod 14 cm long is uniformly charged and has a total charge of 22 C. Determine the
magnitude and direction of the electric field along the axis of the rod at a point 36 cm from its
center.
3
Two small spheres, each of mass 2 g, are suspended by light strings 1 dm in length (see a
picture below). A uniform electric field is applied in the x direction. The spheres have
charges equal to -5·10-8C and 5·10-8 C. Determine the electric field that enables the spheres
to be in equilibrium at an angle =0.1 rad.
4
Three point charges are located at the corners of an equilateral triangle as shown in a figure
below. Calculate the resultant electric force on the 7.00 C charge.
5
Three point charges are arranged as shown in a figure below
(a) Find the vector electric field that the 6.00 nC and 3.00-nC charges together create at the
origin.
(b) Find the vector force on the 5.00-nC charge.
6
Two identical metallic blocks resting on a frictionless horizontal surface are connected by a
light metallic spring having a spring constant k as shown in Figure (a) and an unstretched
length Li . A total charge Q is slowly placed on the system, causing the spring to stretch to an
equilibrium length L, as shown in Figure (b). Determine the value of Q, assuming that all the
charge resides on the blocks and modeling the blocks as point charges.
Electric Flux
7
Calculate the total electric flux through the paraboloidal surface due to a uniform electric field
of magnitude E0 in the direction shown in the picture below.
8
A 40 cm diameter loop is rotated in a uniform electric field until the position of maximum
electric flux is found. The flux in this position is measured to be 5.20*105 N*m2/C. What is
the magnitude of the electric field?
9
Consider a closed triangular box resting within a horizontal electric field of magnitude E =
7.80*104 N/C as shown in Figure Below. Calculate the electric flux through
(a) the vertical rectangular surface,
(b) the slanted surface, and
(c) the entire surface of the box.
10
A uniform electric field ai + bj intersects a surface of area A. What is the flux through this
area if the surface lies
(a) in the yz plane?
(b) in the xz plane?
(c) in the xy plane?
11
The electric field everywhere on the surface of a thin spherical shell of radius 0.75 m is
measured to be 890 N/C and points radially toward the center of the sphere.
(a) What is the net charge within the sphere’s surface?
(b) What can you conclude about the nature and distribution of the charge inside the spherical
shell?
12
A solid sphere of radius 40.0 cm has a total positive charge of 26.0 C uniformly distributed
throughout its volume. Calculate the magnitude of the electric field
(a) 0 cm,
(b) 10.0 cm,
(c) 40.0 cm, and
(d) 60.0 cm from the center of the sphere.
Potential
13
An ion accelerated through a potential difference of 115 V experiences an increase in kinetic
energy of 7.37·10-17 J. Calculate the charge on the ion.
14
An electron starts from rest 3 cm from the center of a uniformly charged insulating sphere of
radius 2.00 cm and total charge 1.00 nC. What is the speed of the electron when it reaches
the surface of the sphere?
Resistors
15
(a) Find the equivalent resistance,
(b) find the current going through the 1.5- resistor. =10 V in the circuit below:
16
What must the value of the resistance x of the unknown resistor be so that the total equivalent
resistance of the network is also x?
17
(a) Find the current in the 20- resistor
(b) Find the potential difference between points a and b.
18
The circuit has been connected for a long time.
(a) What is the voltage across the capacitor?
(b) What is the charge in the capacitor?
19
Calculate the current in each resistor, given that VAB = 64 V.
Write your answer in the following form:
6 - …A,
8 - …A,
12 - …A,
24 - …A.
Internal Resistance
20
(a) What is the current in a 5.6- resistor connected to a battery that has a 0.2 - internal
resistance if the terminal voltage of the battery is 10 V?
(b) What is the emf of the battery?
21
An automobile battery has an emf of 12.6 V and an internal resistance of 0.08 . The headlights
together present equivalent resistance 5.00  (assumed constant). What is the potential difference
across the headlight bulbs
(a) when they are the only load on the battery and
(b) when the starter motor is operated, taking an additional 35 A from the battery?
Capacitors
22
Find the equivalent capacitance between points a and b in the combination of capacitors:
23
Evaluate the equivalent capacitance of the configuration shown in Figure below. All the
capacitors are identical, and each has capacitance C.
24
Two capacitors when connected in parallel give an equivalent capacitance of 9.00 pF and give an
equivalent capacitance of 2.00 pF when connected in series. What is the capacitance of each
capacitor?
25
Three capacitors are connected to a battery as shown in Figure below. Their capacitances are
C1=3C, C2 = C, and C3 = 5C.
(a) What is the equivalent capacitance of this set of capacitors?
(b) State the ranking of the capacitors according to the charge they store, from largest to smallest.
(c) Rank the capacitors according to the potential differences across them, from largest to
smallest.
26
Each capacitor in the combination shown in Figure below has a breakdown voltage of 15 V.
What is the breakdown voltage of the combination?
27
Two identical parallel-plate capacitors, each with capacitance C, are charged to potential
difference V and connected in parallel. Then the plate separation in one of the capacitors is
doubled.
(a) Find the total energy of the system of two capacitors before the plate separation is doubled.
(b) Find the potential difference across each capacitor after the plate separation is doubled.
(c) Find the total energy of the system after the plate separation is doubled.
(d) Reconcile the difference in the answers to parts (a) and (c) with the law of conservation of
energy.
28
Determine the equivalent capacitance of the combination shown in a figure below. (Suggestion:
Consider the symmetry involved.)
Current
29
In a particular cathode ray tube, the measured beam current is 30 A. How many electrons strike
the tube screen every 40 s?
30
A small sphere that carries a charge q is whirled in a circle at the end of an insulating string. The
angular frequency of rotation is . What average current does this rotating charge represent?
31
A 6-V battery is connected to two metal wires dipped in a pot of water. A current of 50 mA
flows for 18 h. How much energy is taken out of the battery during that time?

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Problems 3

Rules for Quizzes and Examinations:

You must commit to your memory the following information:

Commit to your memory the following table:

Commit to your memory the following table:

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