Week 6 and above until thermo Flashcards
charge carriers in metals
electrons
drift speed
net motion on a field of electrons where they flow in one direction
electron current
The number of electrons passing through cross section of wire per second
electron current depends on
electron’s drift speed
Ne formula for number of electron that pass through the cross section during the time interval t
not the ne one
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ie vs Ne
ie is the amount of electron that pass through per second. Ne is amount per time interval
the electrons travel a distance of:
*in a wire segment
| formula
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Volume of the cylinder of charge
formula
A is cross section area
total number of electron in cyclinder
number of electron per cubic meter times volume
number of electron per cubic meter is
ne
Formula for electron current in wire
hind start with Ne formula
electron current
number of electron per second moving through the wire
You can increase electron current by (3)
making them move faster, having more of them per cubic meter and increasing size of pipe they are moving through.
Why is discharging a capacitor so fast?
+how much does the electron actually move?
Because the wires used are already full of e-. The electrons dont need to move the full length of the wire. The e- in wire will just be pushed out as the electron in capacitor enter wire. SO if you have a capacitor plate on neg side thats -16nC that is approximately 10^11 electrions. So 10^11 electrons (excess) would leave capacitor and enter wire and in the wire 10^11 electrons occupy xmeters in the wire so the excess electrons push 10^11 electrons which moves xmeters on the end of the wire.
what would eventually happen to the sea of electron current in a conductor and why?
collisions between electrons and atoms of the metal transform the electron’s kinectic energy into thermal energy and the sea of electrons will quickly slow down and stop
conductors with electrons moving within it are not
at electrostatic equilibrium
establishing E field in wire
caused by nonuniform distribution of surface charges
Surface charge density in the wire at +/- and midpoint of wire
+ at positive plate
- at negative plate
0 at the midpoint
E field of a ring
where Z is the ring distance to the center point between the 2 ring
Why do electrons move in a through a wire as a current?
Bc E field inside the wire created by nonuniform surface charge pushes them
temp of wire is raised bc of
collision between electron and positive non-moving ions transefer KE into thermal energy
each collision of electron with the ion…..its velocity
resets
repeadtedly process of electron colliding and speeding up results …. thus the magnitude of the electrons average velocity is
a non zero average velocity
its drift speed
Drift speed formula
where v0=0