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What kind of force is gravity always?

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Attractive

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Why static charge more significant in drier air?

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Lower humidity makes it easier for charge to become & remain separated

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SI unit of charge

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Coulomb

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Fundament unit of charge

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e= +/- 1.6 x 10^-19 C

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Law of conservation of charge

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Charge cannot be created or destroyed

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What are characteristics of insulators?

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Electrons near the nucleus
Usually nonmetals
Can be used as dielectric materials in capacitors

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How do negative charges distribute around conductors?

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Evenly over entire surface

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Coulomb’s Law

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Quantifies the magnitude of electrostatic force between charges
F=kq1q2/r^2

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Coulomb’s constant/electrostatic constant

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1/4(pi)E0

8.99 x 10^9 Nm^2/C^2

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Permitivity of free space

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8.85 x 10^-12 C^2/Nm^2

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Which is larger gravitational or electrostatic force?

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Electrostatic (by about 2.5 x 10^39 larger

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Q

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Source charge that creates the electric field

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E

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Electric field

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q

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test charge that is placed into the electric field

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Equations for electric field

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E=Fc/q=kQ/r^2

E in N/C or v/m

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Electric force within an electric field

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F=qE

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Field lines

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Imaginary lines that represent how a positive test charge would move in the presence of the source charge

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If the test charge within a field is positive, then the force will point?

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In the same direction as the electric field vector of the source charge

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If test charge within the field is negative, then the force will point?

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Opposite to the field vector of the source charge

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Electrical potential energy

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Dependent on the relative position of one charge with respect to another charge or to a collection of charges

U=kQq/r

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Another way to define electric potential energy

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The amount of work necessary to bring the charge from infinitely far away to that point within the field

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If charges are like charges, potential energy will be?

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Positive (inverse stability to distance)

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If charges are opposite, potential energy will be?

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Negative (direct stability to distance)

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What causes more electrical potential energy?

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Like charges moving together or Unlike charges moving apart

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How do you find an individual charge amount
Multiply the +/- amount times the fundamental unit of charge
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Electrical potential
Ratio of the magnitude of a charges's electricsl potential energy to the magnitude of the charge itself V=U/q in Volts (J/C)
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Electrical potential without the test charge
V=kQ/r
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What is the electrical potential for positive & negative source charges?
Positive & negative
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Voltage/Potential difference
Delta V= Vb-Va=Wab/q
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Which way will a positive test charge move?
From high to low electrical potential to decrease electrical potential & decrease electrical potential energy
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What will be the voltage of a positive test charge as it moves?
Negative, in order to decrease electrical potential energy
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Which way will a negative test charge move?
From low to high electrical potential to increase electrical potential & decrease electrical potential energ
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What will be the voltage of a negative test charge as it moves?
Positive, | Negative work/Negative q gives positive voltage so that potential energy is still decreasing
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Other equations for electrical potential energy (U)
U=q x DeltaV | U= qEd
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Equipotential line
A line on which the potential energy at every point is the same, the potential difference between any two points on the line is zero
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What will change the electrical potential involving equipotential lines?
Moving from one equipotential line to another, no work done on a single equipotential line)
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Electric dipole
Results from two equal and opposite charges being separated a small distance d from each other
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Dipole electrical potential
V=kqdcos/r^2 d=distance between two charges r= distance between dipole center & a single point
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Dipole moment
p=qd
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How do physicists define the direction of dipole moment?
from negative to positive charge
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Perpendicular bisector of the dipole
The plane that lies halfway between +q & -q | Electrical potential at any point along this line=0 bc cos90=0
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Magnitude of the electric field o the perpendicular bisector of the dipole
E=1/4(pi)eo x p/r^3
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Which direction will the electric field vectors point along perpendicular bisector?
Opposite to p
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Net torque on the dipole
t=pEsin Equal to (d/2)Fesin + (d/2)Fesin Allows dipole to reorient itself so that its dipole moment aligns with electrical field
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Dipole has what kinds of equilibrium
Translational but not rotational
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Electric potential between 2 plates
V=Ed
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SI unit for magnetic strength
Tesla (T)= 1 Ns/mC Sometimes use gauss, 1 T=10^4 gauss
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Magnetic field
Created by any moving charge
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Diamagnetic material
Made of atoms with no unpaired electrons and that have no net magnetic field Slightly repelled by a magnet
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Paramagnetic materials
Have unpaired electrons & become weakly magnitized in the presence of of an external magnetic field
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Ferromagnetic materials
Have unpaired electrons and permanent atomic magnetic dipoles & orient randomly so material has no magnetic dipole until exposed to magnetic field & become Strongly magnitized
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Examples of paramagnetic materials?
Aluminum, copper, gold
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Examples of ferromagnetic materials
Iron, nickel, cobalt
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Magnetic field on a straight, current carrying wire
B=uo(I)/2pi(r) B=magnetic field uo=4pi x 10^-7 Tm/A
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Where does the thumb point in the right hand rule for magnetic field on a straight wire?
In the direction of I
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Magnetic field at the center of a circular loop of wire
B=uo(I)/2r
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Lorentz force
Sum of electrostatic & magnetic forces acting on them at the same time
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Magnetic force
FB=qvBsin
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What happens if a charge moves parallel or anitparallel to the magnetic field vector?
NO magnetic force
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Which direction should you point the thumb for magnetic force right hand rule?
Along the force Fingers toward velocity Palm towards field
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Which will always be perpendicular in magnetic force?
v and magnetic force
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Magnetic force created by a current carrying wire
FB=ILBsin theta=angle between L & B

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