Purchase Solution

The Electric Field Strength With Different Masses

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Please help with the following problem. Provide step by step calculations.

An object with a charge of -3.6 micro C and a mass of 0.012 kg experiences an upward electric force, due to a uniform electric field, equal in magnitude to its weight. (a) Find the direction and magnitude of the electric field. (b) If the electric charge on the object is doubled while its mass remains the same, find the direction and magnitude of its acceleration.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The following posting helps with electricity and magnetism problems. The solution is comprised of a step by step explanation of how to determine the strength and direction of the electric field when the electric charge doubles. Step by step calculations are given for each problem.

Solution Preview

Problem:
An object with a charge of -3.6 micro C and a mass of 0.012 kg experiences an upward electric force, due to a uniform electric field, equal in magnitude to its weight. (a) Find the direction and magnitude of the electric field. (b) If the electric charge on the object is doubled while its mass ...

Solution provided by:
Amrit Lal Ahuja, PhD (IP)
Education
  • BEng, Allahabad University, India
  • MSc , Pune University, India
  • PhD (IP), Pune University, India
Recent Feedback
  • " In question 2, you incorrectly add in the $3.00 dividend that was just paid to determine the value of the stock price using the dividend discount model. In question 4 response, it should have also been recognized that dividend discount models are not useful if any of the parameters used in the model are inaccurate. "
  • "feedback: fail to recognize the operating cash flow will not begin until the end of year 3."
  • "Answer was correct"
  • "Great thanks"
  • "Perfect solution..thank you"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Variables in Science Experiments

How well do you understand variables? Test your knowledge of independent (manipulated), dependent (responding), and controlled variables with this 10 question quiz.

Introduction to Nanotechnology/Nanomaterials

This quiz is for any area of science. Test yourself to see what knowledge of nanotechnology you have. This content will also make you familiar with basic concepts of nanotechnology.

The Moon

Test your knowledge of moon phases and movement.

Basic Physics

This quiz will test your knowledge about basic Physics.

Intro to the Physics Waves

Some short-answer questions involving the basic vocabulary of string, sound, and water waves.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Gravitational acceleration and pendulum period on planets

    The field has both an electric and a magnetic component, so it takes a pair of real numbers (one for the intensity of the electric field, one for the intensity of the magnetic field) to describe the field strength.

  • Estimating the Electric Field

    Using Gauss's law a) Find the electric field strength 10 cm from the sphere's center E (r = 10 cm) b) Find the electric field strength 20 cm from the sphere's center E (r = 20 cm) c) Find the electric field strength 30 cm from the sphere's

  • Torque on dipole

    125631 Torque on Dipole An electric dipole consists of charges +2e and -2e separated by 0.78 nm. It is in an electric field of strength 3.4 x 10^6 N/C.

  • Physics: Electric Field, strength, charge, intensity

    296684 Physics: Electric Field, strength, charge, intensity The answers are included but the workings are needed. Electric Field 1.

  • The Electric Field At Different Points

    This solution is comprised of a concise step by step solution of how to calculate the strength of an electric field at different positions relative to two different point charges.

  • Electric Field Equation and Point Charges

    The electric field strength or electric field intensity E, for a charged particle or a system of charges, is defined as the ratio of the electrostatic force F, experienced by a positively charged particle + q0 (test charge) placed within the region of

  • Electric Field Strength

    If the magnetic field strength is B=30 MN/C, what electric field strength would we want to select ions having a speed exactly 0.01c. Please see the attached file.

  • Average electric field strength and average magnetic field strength

    The average electric field strengths and average magnetic field strengths are determined.

  • Mass Spectrometer

    Atoms with different masses will therefore follow somewhat different circular paths and thus end up at different places on a photographic plate, as shown in figure E7.17(included as attachment).

View More Related Solutions