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The voltages in both of these examples could be measured with a meter that compares the measured potential with ground potential. Ground potential is often taken to be zero (instead of taking the potential at infinity to be zero). It is the potential difference between two points that is of importance, and very often there is a tacit assumption that some reference point, such as Earth or a very distant point, is at zero potential. As noted in
Electric Potential Energy: Potential Difference , this is analogous to taking sea level as
when considering gravitational potential energy,
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Section summary
- Electric potential of a point charge is
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- Electric potential is a scalar, and electric field is a vector. Addition of voltages as numbers gives the voltage due to a combination of point charges, whereas addition of individual fields as vectors gives the total electric field.
Conceptual questions
In what region of space is the potential due to a uniformly charged sphere the same as that of a point charge? In what region does it differ from that of a point charge?
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Problems&Exercises
A 0.500 cm diameter plastic sphere, used in a static electricity demonstration, has a uniformly distributed 40.0 pC charge on its surface. What is the potential near its surface?
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What is the potential
from a proton (the average distance between the proton and electron in a hydrogen atom)?
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(a) A sphere has a surface uniformly charged with 1.00 C. At what distance from its center is the potential 5.00 MV? (b) What does your answer imply about the practical aspect of isolating such a large charge?
(a) 1.80 km
(b) A charge of 1 C is a very large amount of charge; a sphere of radius 1.80 km is not practical.
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How far from a
point charge will the potential be 100 V? At what distance will it be
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What are the sign and magnitude of a point charge that produces a potential of
at a distance of 1.00 mm?
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If the potential due to a point charge is
at a distance of 15.0 m, what are the sign and magnitude of the charge?
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In nuclear fission, a nucleus splits roughly in half. (a) What is the potential
from a fragment that has 46 protons in it? (b) What is the potential energy in MeV of a similarly charged fragment at this distance?
(a)
(b) 152 MeV
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A research Van de Graaff generator has a 2.00-m-diameter metal sphere with a charge of 5.00 mC on it. (a) What is the potential near its surface? (b) At what distance from its center is the potential 1.00 MV? (c) An oxygen atom with three missing electrons is released near the Van de Graaff generator. What is its energy in MeV at this distance?
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An electrostatic paint sprayer has a 0.200-m-diameter metal sphere at a potential of 25.0 kV that repels paint droplets onto a grounded object. (a) What charge is on the sphere? (b) What charge must a 0.100-mg drop of paint have to arrive at the object with a speed of 10.0 m/s?
(a)
(b)
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In one of the classic nuclear physics experiments at the beginning of the 20th century, an alpha particle was accelerated toward a gold nucleus, and its path was substantially deflected by the Coulomb interaction. If the energy of the doubly charged alpha nucleus was 5.00 MeV, how close to the gold nucleus (79 protons) could it come before being deflected?
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(a) What is the potential between two points situated 10 cm and 20 cm from a
point charge? (b) To what location should the point at 20 cm be moved to increase this potential difference by a factor of two?
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Unreasonable Results
(a) What is the final speed of an electron accelerated from rest through a voltage of 25.0 MV by a negatively charged Van de Graaff terminal?
(b) What is unreasonable about this result?
(c) Which assumptions are responsible?
(a)
(b) This velocity is far too great. It is faster than the speed of light.
(c) The assumption that the speed of the electron is far less than that of light and that the problem does not require a relativistic treatment produces an answer greater than the speed of light.
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Questions & Answers
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Isn't practices worldwide, be it psychology, be it science. isn't much just a false belief of control over something the mind cannot truly comprehend?
compare and contrast skinner's perspective on personality development on freud
Skinner skipped the whole unconscious phenomenon and rather emphasized on classical conditioning
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explain how nature and nurture affect the development and later the productivity of an individual.
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What would be the best educational aid(s) for gifted kids/savants?
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