A positive charge is placed at the origin, and an equal-size negative charge is placed 12cm away on the positive x-axis. In which direction is a resulting electric force acting on the negative charge?

A positive charge is placed at the origin, and an equal-size negative charge is placed 12cm away on the positive x-axis. In which direction is a resulting electric force acting on the negative charge?

Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Foundations and Connections

1st Edition

ISBN:9781133939146

Author:Katz, Debora M.

Publisher:Katz, Debora M.

Chapter23: Electric Forces

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 54PQ

See similar textbooks

Related questions

Q: Determine the force P needed to suspend the 400 N weight? o W-400 N

Q: 5. Consider two charges q₁ = 1.2 µC and q₂ = 1.6 μC. q₁ is placed at x = 1 cm and y = 3 cm and q₂ is…

Q: A resonating glass tube closed at one end is 4 cm wide and 47 cm long. What are the frequencies and…

A: The objective of the question is to find the frequencies and wavelengths of the first three…

Q: What is true about a test charge, as it is used in the definition of electric field intensity? It…

A: What is test charge used in the definition of electric field intensity.

Q: Figure B 1 of 1 > Calculate the direction of A + B 0 VO ΑΣΦ Submit Part C Previous Answers Request…

A: Two vectorsA = 6.8, in positive x-directionB = 5.5, in negative x-directionRequired:The direction of…

Q: Determine the net electric field at the origin due to the three charges shown in the picture:…

A: Charge is placed at Charge is placed at Charge is placed at Note:Coulomb constant is Find:The net…

Q: 4. Ideal Gas P-V diagram - A box with a moveable piston on top contains a gas with a fixed number of…

A: The objective of the question is to understand the behavior of an ideal gas under a certain set of…

Q: In the figure four particles form a square with edge length a = 4.55 × 10-2 m. The charges are 9₁ =…

A: a.consider the figure below.

Q: 7. For the pulse shown in Figure 1-60, graphically determine the follow a. rise time b. fall time c.…

A: 1) Rise time is the duration it takes for a signal to transition from a low level to a high level.…

Q: Consider two charges, Q and -Q separated by distance s, as shown in the figure, where Q=3.1 µC and…

A: Charge is placed at Charge is placed at Charge is placed at origin.The distance between charges…

Q: A slug with a mass of mm = 16 g is shot out of a rifle that has length LL = 0.72 m. The slug spends…

A: The objective of the question is to calculate the acceleration of the slug as it travels through the…

Q: Find the angle between two vectors A= 2i+2j-k, and B= 6i-3j+2k.

A: Two vectors A and B are given.The angle between the vectors is to be find out.The dot product of any…

Q: (a) In unit-vector notation, what is the sum of a = the magnitude and (c) the direction of a + b…

Q: The drawing shows an equilateral triangle, each side of which has a length of 3.89 cm. Point charges…

A: There are three charges on the corners of an equilateral triangle.The value of the charge on the top…

Q: In the figure, the particles have charges q1 = -q2 = 550 nC and q3 = -q4 = 97 nC, and distance a =…

Q: A small piece of foam has a mass of 3.56 g and a charge of -17.4 uC. It levitates, motionless, when…

Q: 19.19) Two submarines are on a head-on collision course during maneuvres in the North Atlantic. The…

Q: 4. Use the superposition principle to draw F field lines for the two objects whose charges are…

A: The objective of the question is to use the superposition principle to draw the electric field lines…

Q: nutritional information on a cereal box shows that one serving of a dry cereal has 200 alories. If…

Q: 6. A ball is thrown horizontally from the top of a building 110 m high. The ball strikes the ground…

Q: The equipotential lines in a region of electric field are shown in the diagram below. For each path…

Q: The potential is zero at the center of the sphere, not at infinity.

A: The charge on the sphere is = QThe radius of the sphere is = R

Q: On Mars’ surface, a vehicle travels at a distance of 38 m distance at an angle of 180°. Then, it…

A: The objective of the question is to find the displacement of the vehicle from the origin point after…

Q: Given the two charged particles shown in the figure below, find the electric field at the origin.…

A: The charge on the grid, at at

Q: Q1. Determine the weight in newtons (N) of a car whose mass is 1356 kg. Convert the mass of the car…

A: The mass of the car is The acceleration due to gravity is

Q: 19-8.37) A tuning fork of unknown frequency makes three beats per second with a standard fork of…

A: Let, the unknown frequency is = f1 The standard frequency f2 = 384 Hz Beat frequency = 3 Hz

Q: Nikola Jokic is running at 8.5 m/s directly toward the basket when he jumps into the air to dunk the…

Q: a roller coaster begins its movement from an initial height of 25 m in the air and an initial…

A: Given, height 1= 25 m initial velocity= 0 m/s height 2 = ?final velocity = 12.5 m/s

Q: Given the two charged particles shown in the figure below, find the electric field at the origin.…

A: The charge on the grid, at at

Q: A particle with a charge of q = 14.0 μC travels from the origin to the point (x, y) = (20.0 cm, 50.0…

Q: Four capacitors are connected as shown in the figure below. (C = 16.0 μF.) C 3.00 με a Hh. 6.00 με…

Q: The electric field in an xy plane produced by a positively charged particle is 7.81(4.91+4.6) N/C at…

Q: A ball is tossed horizontally from the highest point of a 75 m building and lands 150 m from the…

A: The objective of this question is to find the magnitude of the velocity of the ball just before it…

Q: Suppose a car is traveling at +21.4 m/s, and the driver sees a traffic light turn red. After 0.511 s…

A: The objective of the question is to find the total stopping distance of the car from the point where…

Q: A 2Kg object strikes a spring (k = 400 N/m) and comes to rest after compressing the ring 0.69m. The…

A: The mass of the object is The spring constant is The compression in the spring is The coefficient of…

Q: 30. || A snowboarder glides down a 50-m-long, 15 hill. She then glides horizontally for 10 m before…

Q: A cube is located with one corner at the origin of an x, y, z coordinate system. One of the cube's…

Q: Two children are fighting over a toy box of mass kgm=35.0kg in a sand box. Child B pulls at an…

A: The objective of the question is to find the force that Child A must apply to start moving the box…

Q: Four point charges are arranged in a rectangle of length x and width y as shown in the figure. Two…

A: The objective of this question is to calculate the energy required to disassemble a configuration of…

Q: Find the current in the 12- resistor in the figure below. (Assume R₁ = R3 = 1.6 , R₂ = R₁ = 9.02, AV…

A: Series CircuitIn a series circuit resistors are connected in a chain, and the current passed through…

Q: A student wishes to use their knowledge of thin lenses to make a simple projector. She wants to…

Q: Given v1 = 3.54 +- 0.1 m/s v2 = 8.16 +- 0.1 m/s t = 2.79 +-0.1 m/s Find the acceleration with…

Q: A father is helping his young son learn to ride a bike by pushing on the bike seat from the back. At…

Q: a) Find the two locations, do, where an object can be placed in front of a convex lens of focal…

Q: Two charged point-like objects are located on the x-axis. The point-like object with charge q₁ =…

Q: An FM broadcast station has a transmitting antenna located 50 m above average terrain. How far away…

Q: A constant electric field accelerates a proton from rest through a distance of 1.90 m to a speed…

Q: A ferry with a velocity of 6.55 m/s travels from one side of a 945 m wide river to the other side at…

Q: One barn is unit of area in Sl unit, 16 = 10-28 m² approximately 1/10 of the size of a proton.…

Q: Calculate the kinetic energy of a 541. kg roller-coaster car moving at a speed of 25.5×m/s. Round…

A: The objective of this question is to calculate the kinetic energy of a roller-coaster car given its…

Question

A positive charge is placed at the origin, and an equal-size negative charge is placed 12cm away on the positive x-axis.

In which direction is a resulting electric force acting on the negative charge?

AI-Generated Solution

AI-generated content may present inaccurate or offensive content that does not represent bartleby’s views.

Unlock instant AI solutions

Tap the button
to generate a solution

Click the button to generate
a solution

SEE SOLUTION

Similar questions

A particle with charge q on the negative x axis and a second particle with charge 2q on the positive x axis are each a distance d from the origin. Where should a third particle with charge 3q be placed so that the magnitude of the electric field at the origin is zero?
Panicle A of charge 3.00 104 C is at the origin, particle B of charge 6.00 104 C is at (4.00 m, 0), and panicle C of charge 1.00 104 C is at (0, 3.00 m). (a) What is the x-component of the electric force exerted by A on C? (b) What is the y-component of the force exerted by A on C? (c) Find the magnitude of the force exerted by B on C. (d) Calculate the x-component of the force exerted by B on C. (e) Calculate the y-component of the force exerted by B on C. (f) Sum the two x-components to obtain the resultant x-component of the electric force acting on C. (g) Repeat part (f) for the y-component. (h) Find the magnitude and direction of the resultant electric force acting on C.
A uniformly charged insulating rod of length 14.0 cm is bent into the shape of a semicircle as shown in Figure P 19.21. The rod has a total charge of 7.50 C. Find (a) the magnitude and (b) the direction of the electric field at O, the center of the semicircle.
A 1.75-nC charged particle located at the origin is separated by a distance of 0.0825 m from a 2.88-nC charged particle located farther along the positive x axis. If the 1.75-nC particle is kept fixed at the origin, where along the positive x axis should the 2.88-nC particle be located so that the magnitude of the electrostatic force it experiences is twice as great as it was in Problem 27?
A charged rod is placed in the center along the axis of a neutral metal cylinder (Fig. F25.57). The rod has a total charge of 38.3 C uniformly distributed. What are the charges on the inner and outer surfaces of the metal cylinder? (Ignore the ends.) FIGURE P25.57 Problems 57 and 58.
Two particles with charges q1 and q2 are separated by a distance d, and each exerts an electric force on the other with magnitude FE. a. In terms of these quantities, what separation distance would cause the magnitude of the electric force to be halved? b. In terms of these quantities, what separation distance would cause the magnitude of the electric force to be doubled?
An infinite line of positive charge lies along the y axis, with charge density = 2.00 C/m. A dipole is placed with its center along the x axis at x = 25.0 cm. The dipole consists of two charges 10.0 C separated by 2.00 cm. The axis of the dipole makes an angle of 35.0 with the x axis, and the positive charge is farther from the line of charge than the negative charge. Find the net force exerted on the dipole.
A point charge of 4.00 nC is located at (0, 1.00) m. What is the x component of the electric field due to the point charge at (4.00, 2.00) m? (a) 1.15 N/C (b) 0.864 N/C (c) 1.44 N/C (d) 1.15 N/C (e) 0.864 N/C
Show that the maximum magnitude Emax of the electric field along the axis of a uniformly charged ring occurs at x=a/2 (see Fig. 23.3) and has the value Q/(630a2). Figure 23.3 (Example 23.2) A uniformly charged ring of radius c. (a) The field at P on the x axis due to an element of charge dq. (b) The perpendicular component of the field at P due to segment 1 is canceled by the perpendicular component due to segment 2.
Three charged panicles are located at the corners of an equilateral triangle as shown in Figure P23.15. Calculate the total electric force on the 7.00-C charge.
aA plastic rod of length = 24.0 cm is uniformly charged with a total charge of +12.0 C. The rod is formed into a semicircle with its center at the origin of the xy plane (Fig. P24.34). What are the magnitude and direction of the electric field at the origin? Figure P24.34