COLLEGE PHYSICS:VOL.1
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Author: ETKINA
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Chapter 17, Problem 46P
* You are holding at rest a small sphere A with electric charge
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Ch. 17 - Review Question 17.1 To decide whether an object...Ch. 17 - Review Question 17.2 The model of charging by...Ch. 17 - Review Question 17.3 One cannot charge a held...Ch. 17 - Review Question 17.4 Two charged objects (1 and 2)...Ch. 17 - Review Question 17.5 How can we reduce the...Ch. 17 - Review Question 17.6
How would our reasoning in...Ch. 17 - Review Question 17.7 In a Van de Graaff generator,...Ch. 17 - Which of the following occurs when two objects are...Ch. 17 - 2. With which statements do you disagree?
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Ch. 17 - When an object gets charged by rubbing, where does...Ch. 17 - Choose all of the quantities that are constant in...Ch. 17 - Identically charged point-like objects A and B are...Ch. 17 - When separated by distance d, identically charged...Ch. 17 - Balloon A has charge q, and identical mass balloon...Ch. 17 - Imagine that two charged objects are the system of...Ch. 17 - Two objects with charges + q and -2q are separated...Ch. 17 - Charged point-like objects A and B are separated...Ch. 17 - 12. If you move a negatively charged balloon...Ch. 17 - 13. Describe the differences between the electric...Ch. 17 - Prob. 14CQCh. 17 - At one time it was thought that eclectic charge...Ch. 17 - 16. What experiments can you do to show that there...Ch. 17 - An object becomes positively charged due to...Ch. 17 - List everything that you know about electric...Ch. 17 - 19. What experimental evidence supports the idea...Ch. 17 - 20. You have an aluminum pie pan with pieces of...Ch. 17 - You have a charged metal ball. How can you reduce...Ch. 17 - 22. You have a foam rod rubbed with felt and a...Ch. 17 - A positively charged metal ball A is placed near...Ch. 17 - 24. Show that if the charge on B in the previous...Ch. 17 - 25. Two metal balls of the same radius are placed...Ch. 17 - 26. Describe the experiments that were first used...Ch. 17 - 27. The electrical force that one electric charge...Ch. 17 - 28. Why isn’t Coulomb's law valid for large...Ch. 17 - 29. How is electric potential energy similar to...Ch. 17 - BIO Ventricular defibrillation During ventricular...Ch. 17 - 2. * You rub two 2.0-g balloons with a wool...Ch. 17 - * Two balloons of different mass hang from strings...Ch. 17 - * Lightning A cloud has a large positive charge....Ch. 17 - 5. Sodium chloride (table salt) consists of sodium...Ch. 17 - * EST (a) Earth has an excess of 6105 electrons on...Ch. 17 - 7. Determine the electrical force that two protons...Ch. 17 - * Determine the number of electrons that must be...Ch. 17 - BIO Ions on cell walls The membrane of a body cell...Ch. 17 - * Hydrogen atom in a simplified model of a...Ch. 17 - * Three 100 nC charged objects are equally spaced...Ch. 17 - ** Tow objects with charges q and 4q are separated...Ch. 17 - * Salt crystal Four ions (Na+,Cl-,Na+,andCl-) in a...Ch. 17 - * A+106C charged object and a+2106C charged object...Ch. 17 - 15. **BIO Bee pollination Bees acquire an electric...Ch. 17 - 16. * A triangle with equal sides of length 10 cm...Ch. 17 - 17. You have a small metal sphere fixed on an...Ch. 17 - 18. * After the experiment in Problem 17.17, you...Ch. 17 - 20. (a) Determine the change in electric potential...Ch. 17 - You have a system of two positively charged...Ch. 17 - You have a system of two negatively charged...Ch. 17 - 23. Repeat (a)-(c) of Problem 17.22 for a system...Ch. 17 - The metal sphere on the top of a Van de Graaff...Ch. 17 - * EST An electron is 0.10 cm from an object with...Ch. 17 - * (a) An object with charge q4=+3.010-9C is moved...Ch. 17 - 27. * An object with charge is moved from...Ch. 17 - +8nCandq2=4nC are placed at marks...Ch. 17 - 29. * Two small objects with charges + Q and -Q...Ch. 17 - 30. * A stationary block has a charge of . A...Ch. 17 - Figure P17.31 shows four different configurations...Ch. 17 - * Evaluate the solution Metal sphere 1 has charge...Ch. 17 - 37. * Construct separate force diagrams for each...Ch. 17 - 38. “ The six objects shown in Figure P17.38 have...Ch. 17 - * A small metal ball with positive charge + q and...Ch. 17 - 40. * Four objects each with charge are located...Ch. 17 - 41. * Two 5.0-g aluminum foil balls hang from...Ch. 17 - 42. * A 6.0-g ball with charge hangs from a...Ch. 17 - * A 0.40-kg cart with charge +4.010-8C starts at...Ch. 17 - A dust particle has an excess charge of 4106...Ch. 17 - Electric accelerator A micro-transporter moves...Ch. 17 - * You are holding at rest a small sphere A with...Ch. 17 - * A Van de Graaff generator is placed in rarefied...Ch. 17 - 48. * Two protons each of mass and charge +e are...Ch. 17 - 49. * Two protons, initially separated by a very...Ch. 17 - * An alpha particle consists of two protons and...Ch. 17 - * Determine the speed that the proton shown in...Ch. 17 - 52. ** Suppose that Earth and the Moon initially...Ch. 17 - 53. * BIO Calcium ion synapse transfer Children...Ch. 17 - 54. 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