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Question 1
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Read chapter 21, do you have any questions?

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Question 5
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Why does a charged capacitor have a net charge of zero?

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Why is a good conductor of electricity also a good conductor of heat?

Question 7
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You are in a car that has been struck by lightning. What does the electric field inside the car look like, and why?

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I can rub a balloon against my hair and get a 1300-volt shock when I touch it. I can touch a car battery the wrong way and get a 12-volt shock. Why would the car battery hurt more, even though the voltage is so much lower?

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Question 10
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How can you determine the direction of the force you find in Coulomb's law?

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The pieces of paper are not charged. Why are some attracted to the comb, and why do some pieces jump away?

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How does this show that water and isopropanol are polar liquids while hexane is not?

For the next section you will need the following equations

Coulomb's law. F= force, k = 9x10^9 nm^2/c^2, q1,q2 charge of each object, r=distance between the charges


Electric field strength equation. E = electric field strength, F = Force on the object, q=the charge of the object



Inverse square law - that something is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source.





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Charge Q acts as a point charge to create an electric field. Its strength, measured a distance of 30 cm away, is 40 N/C. On Level - which of the three equations above would you use to calculate the Magnitude of the electrical field at any given point? Honors: What is the magnitude of the electric field strength that you would expect to be measured at a distance of 60 cm away?

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A charge of q = - 4.0 × 10^6 is placed in an electric field and experiences a force of 5.5 N. On level - which equation would I need to calculate the magnitude of the electric field? Honors: What is the magnitude of the electric field at the point where charge q is located?

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A physicist is measuring the electric field strength created by the presence of one highly charged particle. Is the field equally strong everywhere in the field? how do you know?

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A positive charge q exerts a force of magnitude (- 0.20 N) on another particle with charge (- 2q). Find the magnitude of charge q if the distance separating them is equal to 50 cm.

On level - what are my givens, what is my unknown, and what equation should I use?
Honors, all of the above and find the unknown.

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Question 21
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Remember the question from the heat chapter of "which had more heat, the iceberg or the cup of coffee" and while the coffee had the higher average heat, the iceberg was that much bigger therefore had more heat. Consider the above "which one is stronger question". rubbing the balloon on his head was enough for the balloon to stick to his hair, and not fall towards the earth. Let's say he is holding his hair out, so that all the electrostatic force is up, and we only rubbed it enough for the force up to be equal and opposite to gravity. Consider that the force pulling down the balloon is the gravity force stemming from the mass of the entire planet, whereas the force keeping it up is the electrostatic force from ... what?

Compare a Proton and an Electron
Electrons and protons have equal mass and equal but opposite charge
Electrons and protons have unequal mass and unequal but opposite charge
Electrons and protons have equal mass and unequal but opposite charge
Electrons and protons have unequal mass and equal but opposite charge
Electrons and protons have unequal mass and identical charges.
You rub a plastic rod against your cat - what happens?
Electrons from the fur move to the plastic rod, both cat and rod become negatively charged and repel each other
Electrons from the fur move to the plastic rod, the cat becomes negatively charged, and the plastic positively charged charged. they now attract each other
Electrons from the fur move to the plastic rod, both cat and rod become positively charged and repel each other
Electrons from the fur move to the plastic rod, the cat becomes positively charged, and the rod becomes negatively charged. They now attract each other
Newton's law of gravitation, Coulomb's law, and the intensity of a sound wave at a distance from the source have what thing in common
Conservation of charge
They are equal and opposite reactions
They are inverse-square laws
They measure the attraction between objects
Coulombs law allows you to find the force. Is the force a vector or a scalar?
vector
scalar
What does it mean to say an object is electrically polarized?
The electrons move to one side of the object and the protons move to the other side
The electrons move to one side, so one side is positive, the other side is negative
the object becomes magnetized like the poles.
The protons move to one side of the object so one side is positive, and the other side is negative.
what direction is the force in the last problem?
North
an attraction force between the charges
a repelling force pushing the charges apart
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Practice your Si unit prefixes
\mu - micro
1 \cdot 10^3
n - nano
1 \cdot 10^{-2}
p - pico
1 \cdot 10^-6
k - kilo
1 \cdot 10^{-9}
c - centi
1 \cdot 10^{-12}
Which is stronger
the force of gravity
the electrostatic force