Consider a uniformly charged ring in the xy plane, centered at the origin. The ring has radius a and positive charge q distributed evenly along its circumference. Imagine a small metal ball of mass m and negative charge −q0. The ball is released from rest at the point (0,0,d) and constrained to move along the z axis, with no damping. If 0

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Consider a uniformly charged ring in the xy plane, centered at the origin. The ring has radius a and positive charge q distributed evenly along its circumference.

Imagine a small metal ball of mass m and negative charge −q0. The ball is released from rest at the point (0,0,d) and constrained to move along the z axis, with no damping. If 0<d≪a, what will be the ball's subsequent trajectory?

repelled from the origin
attracted toward the origin and coming to rest
oscillating along the z axis between z=d and z=−d
circling around the z axis at z=d

 

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