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    This document describes an experiment involving electric fields and equipotential lines using conducting sheets with electrodes. The introduction defines electric field and discusses how electric force is related to electric field strength. The results and error analysis sections are omitted. The discussions and conclusions section indicates that electric field strength is stronger near the positive charge and weaker near the negative charge. Equipotential lines formed straight lines for one sheet and spherical shapes for the other. Questions at the end test understanding of concepts like why electric fields cannot cross and the direction of no external work.

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    This document describes an experiment involving electric fields and equipotential lines using conducting sheets with electrodes. The introduction defines electric field and discusses how electric force is related to electric field strength. The results and error analysis sections are omitted. The discussions and conclusions section indicates that electric field strength is stronger near the positive charge and weaker near the negative charge. Equipotential lines formed straight lines for one sheet and spherical shapes for the other. Questions at the end test understanding of concepts like why electric fields cannot cross and the direction of no external work.

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    This document describes an experiment involving electric fields and equipotential lines using conducting sheets with electrodes. The introduction defines electric field and discusses how electric force is related to electric field strength. The results and error analysis sections are omitted. The discussions and conclusions section indicates that electric field strength is stronger near the positive charge and weaker near the negative charge. Equipotential lines formed straight lines for one sheet and spherical shapes for the other. Questions at the end test understanding of concepts like why electric fields cannot cross and the direction of no external work.

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    Week 2 Electric Fields and Equipment Lines

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    Jalen T
    This document describes an experiment involving electric fields and equipotential lines using conducting sheets with electrodes. The introduction defines electric field and discusses how electric force is related to electric field strength. The results and error analysis sections are omitted. The discussions and conclusions section indicates that electric field strength is stronger near the positive charge and weaker near the negative charge. Equipotential lines formed straight lines for one sheet and spherical shapes for the other. Questions at the end test understanding of concepts like why electric fields cannot cross and the direction of no external work.

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    Jalen Thompson

    Electric Fields and Equipotential Lines


    Apparatus
    Conducting sheets with electrodes (the first consisting of two parallel plates and the second
    consisting of two circular electrodes), a voltmeter, a DC power supply sheets of graph paper

    Introduction
    An electric field can be defined similarly to a gravitational field. An electric field E at a
    point in space is defined as the electric force acting on a test charge q0 placed at said point. The
    electric field at this point is defined as the electric force acting on a positive test charge placed at
    the point divided by the magnitude of the test charge. This is demonstrated by the equation
    𝐸→ = 𝐹→/𝑞 0. E is the electric field external to the test charge and is not produced by the test
    charge. Thus, the force on a positive charge due to an electric field is in the direction of the
    electric field, while the force on a negative charge placed in the same field is opposite the electric
    field.
    Results

    Error Analysis
    The only error I could see would be the volt reading by the machine, or if us using the
    conductive sheet with electrode and not touching the dot exactly in the middle, we would have
    been a little bit off.
    Discussions and Conclusions
    In this experiment the concepts of electric fields and equipotential lines were presented.
    They presented different ideas shown through the works of a charge. Our charge sheets had a
    negative and positive charge. One sheet had the charges almost like two walls. The other sheet
    had just a pole to a pole. In this experiment two relationships were shown. First, a linear
    relationship in charge was presented. Also, the farther away from the negative charge a spot was,
    the more Volts were present. This means that the charge was stronger near the positive charge
    and weaker near the negative. The sheet with just the poles showed a spherical shape as to where
    the sheet with the beams back and forth made a straight line.
    Questions
    Part 1:
    1. The electric fields cannot cross because the electric vectors would then have two
    directions on them. No, they also cannot cross because they are given a specific set value.
    2. Because there is no potential gradient parallel to the equal potential surface.
    3. The direction a charge can be displaced without any external work being done would be
    the perpendicular direction. In this case it would be perpendicular to the y axis, which
    would make to perpendicular to anything parallel to the y axis as well.
    Part 2:

    1.
    2. Slope: (1.27V-0.52V)/(0.02m-0.01m)=75 V/m

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