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6.2 Electric fields Flashcards

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What is an electric field?

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An electric field is the reigon around a body in which other charges bodies will feel a force due to the electric charge on the body.

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What are electric field lines?

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They show the shape of the field and the direction of the field line at a point is the direction in which a small positive charge would move when placed on that spot.

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what is the electric field strength?

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The electric field strength is defined as the force per unit positive charge. Units are newtons per coulmb (NC-1). It is the force that a charge of +1C would experiece if placed at that point in the field.

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What are electric fields caused by?

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Electric charge

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What force does an electric field exert on a charge object?

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An electric field exerts an electrical force on any charged object.

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Which way do electric field lines act in regards to it’s source?

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Electric field lines can axct towards or away from the charged sourse as the electric feild can be attractive or repusive in nature.

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Define electric field strength?

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The force acting on unit charge placed at that point in the field.

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What sort of quantity is electric field strength?

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A vector quantity

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What is the equation for electric field strength?

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E= F/Q

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E=F/C
What does each letter represent?

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E= electric field strength
F= force
Q= size of positive charge in coulmbs

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What are the units for electric field strength?

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NC^-1

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What does the direction of the electric field lines show?

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It shows the direction that unit positive charge would move if placed at that point in the fields.

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What do close electric field lines indicate?

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A strong electric field.

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What is a neutral point between 2 charged objects?

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The neutral point is the pace between 2 charged objects where the feilds exactly cancel and the net force is zero.

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What is Coulmb’s law?

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Coulmb’s law states that the electrical force, F between two point charges is directly proportional to the product of their charges and inversley proportional to the square of their separation, F=Qq/4πε0r^2

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What is permittivity of free space?

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ε0, is. the physical constant related to the size of the firce between electric charges in free space (a vacuum). It has a value of 8.85x10^-12C^2m^-2N^-1/

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What did the french physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulmb discover with his investigations relating to the behavior of charged bodies in the vicinity of one another.

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  • The magnitude of the force between 2 charged bodies is directly proportional ti the product of their charges.
  • The magnitude of the force is inversely proportional to the square of their separation.
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What equation provides an explanation od Coulmb’s law?

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F=kQq/r^2

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In F=kQq/r^2, what does k stand for?

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k is a constant of proportionality. The physicist James Cleak Maxwell was able to relate te value of k to a physical constant known as the permitttivity of free space ε0.

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What is the relationship between k and ε0?

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k=1/(4πε0)

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How can you write coulmbs law from F=kqQ/r^2 and k=1/4πε0?

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F=Qq/4πε0r^2

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When there is more than one force on a charge, how do you find the resultant force?

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The resultant force is equal to the vector sum of all the forces.

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Using F=qQ/4πε0r^2 abd E=F/q, what new equation can be used to find the electric field strength for a point charge?

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E=Q/4πε0r^2

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What does the graph of electric field strength ,E, agaist distance from the point charge, r look like?

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What does this graph show us?

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Electric field strength is an inverse square law with distance, written as E∝1/r^2

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How do you find the resultant field of 2 or moe charges?

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Find the vector sum of the electric fields of individual charged.

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What is the similarity between an electric field and gravitational field and how their strength is defined?

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  • Feild strength in an electric field is defined as the force per unit positive charge.
  • Feild strength of gravity is defined as force per unnit mass.
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What is the similarity between an electric field and gravitational field and the equations that related force and field strength?

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  • In electric fields, both force ans field strength follow an inverse square law: F∝q/r^2 and E∝Q/^r
  • In gravitational fields the force and field strength follow an inverse square law F∝Mm/r^2 and g∝M/r^2.
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What is the similarity between an electric field and gravitational field and the lines that represent the field?

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  • Electric field for a radial source act radially outwards from a positive charge and inwards for a negative charge.
  • Gravitational field lines always act radially inwards.
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What is the similarity between an electric field and gravitational field and if they are attractive or repulsive forces?

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  • The electrostatic force can be attractive or repulsive.
  • The gravitational force is always attractive- it attracts masses towards one another, so both F and g have a negative sign in this equation.
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What is permittivity?

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ε is a constant releated to the size of the capacitance of a capacitor. For a parallel plate capacitor of plate induction d and area, A, C=εA/d. Permittivity has the units C^2m^-2N^-1.

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What is relative permittivity?

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εr of a material is the factor by which the capacitance of a capacitor with that material between its plates is inreased relative to the capacitance of a capacitor with air or vacuum between its plates.Relative permittivity is a pure umber and has no units, and is related to the permittivoty of free space, ε0 by εr=C/C0= εA/d/ε0A/d= ε/ε0

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What happens the the field lines of an electric field as we move further away from the source?

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The field lines diverge as the firld strength follows an inverse square relationship.

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What happens to the field strength as you move further away from the an electric source?

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The strength of the field decreases

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Is the field stength uniform with a radial field?

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No.
THe field strangth is not uniform within a radial field.

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What sort of electric field will 2 conducting plates that have been charged by connection to the terminals of a battery create?

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They will create a uniform field between them.

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Which way do field lines showing an electric field point?

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They will point from the positive charge to a negative charge.

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How could you set up a uniform electric field?

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Put 2 parallel plates a small distance apart from eachother and are connected to a battery, so that the potential difference across the plates is V. The plates carry equal and opposite charges, so there is a uniform field between them except just at the edges.

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What is required to move a small positive charge to a positive plate in a uniform electric field?

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It will require a force, beacuse the electric field acts downwards.
This force is constant because the electric fied is constant and does not vary with distance.

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What is the work done on a charge against the electric field equal to?

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Work= force x distance
W=Fxd

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How can you derrive the equation E=V/d

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  • W=Fxd
  • V=W/q, W=Vq
  • E=F/Q, F=EQ
  • Vq=EQ x d
  • V=Exd
  • E=V/d
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What are the units for electric field strength?

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NC^-1

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What equation shiws the relationship between electric field strength, potential difference between the plates and the separation of the plates?

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E=V/d

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What will happen to a charged particle when placed in an electric field?

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It will cause the particle to accelerate.

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What are the 2 stituation when placing a charged particle in an electric field, causing it to accelerate?

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  • Placing a stationary charged particle within a uniform electric field.
  • Injecting a moving charged particle into a uniform electric field, initially at right angles to the direction of the field.
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How do you work out the gain in kinetic energy on a charged particle places in a one-dimensional electric field?

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The charged particle will either accelerate to one of the charged plates depending on the charge on the particle. We can applythe equation F=ma to describe it’s motion and also use the transfer of energy is equal to work done, to calculate the gain in kinetic energy.

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Why will charged particles move in a parabollic motion When thy enter sn electric field at a right angle to the direction of the field?

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A charged particle hass a component of motion in the direction perpendicualr to the field as well as a component of the motion parallel to the field. Since the components of motion are independant from each other, there will be a constant velecity in the direction parallel to the field but am acceleration in the direction in the field- giving a parabolic motion.

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How can we decribe the motion of a charged particle travelling parallel to the plates?

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We can use the equations of linear motion to describe the motion of the charge parallel to the plates, as well as F=ma to a=decribe it’s acceleration in the direction perpendicular to the plates.

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What equation gives the capacitance of a capacitor with the permittivity of the material between the plates, the area of the overlap of the plates and the separation of the plates?

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C=ε0A/d

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How do you work out permittivity?

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When a material of relative permittivity εr is used, the permittivity is found by multiplying the relative permittivity of the material by the permittivity of free space, ε=εrε0

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What is electric potential?

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Electric potential is the work done per unit positive charge to move that charge from infinity to a point in an electric field. The unit is JC^-1 or V. One volt is 1 joule per coulmb.

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What is electric potential energy?

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The electric potential energy of a body of charge is the work done to move that charge from infinity to a point in an electric field.

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To move a charge in a direction opposite to the electric field requires work done. What is this work done equal to?

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The work done/ is equal to the stored electric potential energy.

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At infinity, what will the electric potential be?

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0

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For point Q, what equation gived the magnitude of the electric potential?

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V=Q/4πε0r

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V=Q/4πε0r. What will happen as a small positive charge,q gets closer to a positive charge, Q?

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q will need to do work against the field, due to the repulsive force exerted by Q.

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What does the graph of electric potential against distance look like for a repulsive field? Why does it look like this?

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In a repulsive feild, potential will inecrase as the sparation decreases. This is because more and more energy is requires to bring a unit of positive charge closer to a like charge since the force of repusion increases the closer it gets.

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What does the graph of electric potential against distance look like for an attractive field? Why does it look like this?

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Electric potential will become more negtive as the separation decreases beacuse as a positive charge moves towards a negative charge they will be attactive, ‘negative work’ is done.

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Describe the electric field on the sphere?

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The charge is uniformly distrubuted on it’s outer surface and so outside the sphere the charge can be treated as a point charge at the centre of the sphere. The electric field is radial and all points on the sphere have the same value of potential, V.

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What do you get is you substitiute C=Q/V into V=Q/4πε0r?

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C=Q/(Q/4πε0r) or C=4πε0r

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What equations give the electric potential energy?

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  • E=Vq
  • E=Qq/4πε0r
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For a charge being moved in a repulsive radial electric field, how do you find the work done to move that charge a cerain distance?

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As work done= force x distance, the area beheath a force-distence graph is equal to the work done.

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