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CH 21
CH 21
CH 21
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Objectives
1. Apply the concepts of the dichotomy, conservation and
quantization of electric charge
2. Given the initial/final charge distribution, calculate the final/initial
charge distribution using conservation principles
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Benjamin F ranklin
positive charge
negative charge
+
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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e. g. rubbing
where n is an integer
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Objectives
1. Predict charge distributions, and the resulting attraction or
repulsion, in a system of charged insulators and conductors
2. Outline the process of charging
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Charging by Induction
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Charging by Induction
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Charging by Induction
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Polarization is the slight shifting of charge within the molecules of the neutral insulator 12
Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
Two neutral conducting pop cans are touching each other. A positively charged
balloon is brought near one of the cans as shown below. The cans are separated
while the balloon is nearby, as shown. After the balloon is removed the cans are
brought back together. When touching again, can X is ____.
A. positively charged
B. negatively charged
C. neutral
D. impossible to tell
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Example:
A negatively charged balloon is brought near a neutral conducting sphere as
shown below. As it approaches, charge within the sphere will distribute itself in a
very specific manner. Which one of the diagrams below properly depicts the
distribution of charge in the sphere?
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Example:
A positively charged balloon is brought near a neutral conducting sphere as
shown below. While the balloon is near, the sphere is touched (grounded).
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Example:
Consider three identical conducting cubes, A, B, and C as shown. Cube A and
Cube B were made to touch each other, after electrostatic equilibrium is
reached, they were separated. Cube A was then made to touch Cube C. After
electrostatic equilibrium is reached, what are the final charges on each cube?
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Exercise 1:
You have two lightweight metal spheres, each hanging from
an insulating nylon thread. One of the spheres has a net
negative charge, while the other sphere has no net charge.
1. If the spheres are close together but do not touch, will they
A. attract each other,
B. repel each other, or
C. exert no force on each other?
2. You now allow the two spheres to touch. Once they have touched,
will the two spheres
A. attract each other,
B. repel each other, or
C. exert no force on each other?
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Objective
1. Calculate the net electric force on a point charge exerted by a
system of point charges
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Coulombs Law
Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Where:
Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
+yaxis
q1
q2
a
+xaxis
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
+yaxis
q1
q2
a
+xaxis
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
+yaxis
q3
a
q1
q2
a
+xaxis
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Example:
Five equal charges Q are equally spaced on a semicircle of
radius R as shown. Find the force on a charge q located at
the center of the semicircle.
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
When two electrically charged particles in empty space interact, how does
each one know that the other is there? What goes on in the space
between them to communicate the effect of each one to the other?
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Objectives
1. Describe the electric field due to a point charge quantitatively
and qualitatively
2. Establish the relationship between the electric field and the
electric force on a test charge
3. Predict the trajectory of a massive point charge in a uniform
electric field
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Electric Field
The electric field is the intermediary
through which A communicates its
presence to B (qo).
The electric force on a charged
body is exerted by the electric
field created by other charged
bodies.
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Electric Field
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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(magnitude only)
= '
(magnitude + direction)
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
+yaxis
a
q3
q1
a
q2
a
+xaxis
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
q = +e
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
q = e
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
magnitude
direction
both magnitude and direction
neither magnitude nor direction
magnitude
direction
both magnitude and direction
neither magnitude nor direction
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Objective
1. Evaluate the electric field at a point in space due to a system of
arbitrary charge distributions
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Components:
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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(simple)
(complicated)
Point charge
Charge distribution
Q
P
P
= '
At point P,
= ?
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Q
q1
qn
q3
q2
qo
P
(Superposition of forces)
(Superposition of Efields)
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Charge distributions
Examples:
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Line charge
At point P:
Magnitude:
=
=
Direction: +x-direction
x
R
At point R:
Magnitude:
=
=
Direction: x-direction
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Line charge
At point P:
Magnitude:
=
=
Direction: x-direction
x
R
At point R:
Magnitude:
=
=
Direction: +x-direction
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Plane charge
At point P:
Magnitude:
=
=
Direction: +x-direction
x
R
At point R:
Magnitude:
=
=
Direction: x-direction
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Plane charge
At point P:
Magnitude:
=
=
Direction: x-direction
x
R
At point R:
Magnitude:
=
=
Direction: +x-direction
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
Consider three charged infinite planes that are parallel to each other as
shown in the figure. The rightmost plane has uniform charge density +
while the rest have uniform charge density . Calculate the magnitude of
the electric field at the four regions I to IV.
I II III IV
+
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Example:
An infinite line of charge with linear charge density was placed a distance
d on top of an infinite sheet with surface charge density as shown. What
is the net electric field at point P at a distance of 2d from the line?
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Exercise 2:
Three infinite sheets of uniform surface charge densities of +, + and
are arranged as shown. Which of the regions 1, 2, 3 and 4 has/have net
electric fields pointing in the +x-direction?
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Objective
1. Given the electric field lines, deduce the electric field vectors
and nature of electric field sources
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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An electric field line is an imaginary line or curve drawn through a region of space.
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Example:
C.
B.
D.
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
Objective
1. Discuss the motion of an electric dipole in a uniform electric
field
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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What is an Electric Dipole?
+q
p = qd (magnitude)
SI units of p : C m
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Torque
:
:
Magnitude of torque:
Direction of torque:
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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Electric Charge
Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
Coulombs Law
Electric Field and Electric Forces
Electric Field Calculations
Electric Field Lines
Electric Dipoles
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