Electric Force, Field, and Potential
When two identical but oppositely charged particles are released from rest in an electrically insulating fluid, what describes their subsequent motion?
They move away from each other with equal speeds due to mutual repulsion forces.
They accelerate toward each other due to electrostatic attraction.
They rotate around each other without changing their initial separation distance due to angular momentum conservation.
They remain stationary as their charges neutralize upon release into an insulating fluid medium.
What effect does halving Coulomb's constant (k) have on both the potential energy between two like charges at a fixed distance and on their electric field strength?
Potential energy halves and field strength halves as well.
Potential energy remains unaffected but field strength doubles due to inverse proportionality with k.
Both remain unaffected since they are independent of k.
Potential energy halves but field strength remains unaffected since it depends only on charge values.
If two charged particles are released from rest and allowed to interact only with each other, what will be conserved as they move?
Total charge of the system
Total mechanical energy
Electric potential energy only
Momentum of each particle
Which scientist's law can be used to calculate the electric force between two stationary charged particles?
Newton's Second Law
Coulomb's Law
Kepler's Law
Ohm's Law
If an electron exhibits wave-like properties, which of the following experimental setups could demonstrate its diffraction pattern?
Observing the photoelectric effect with electrons.
Colliding electrons with positrons to observe annihilation.
Measuring the momentum of an individual electron.
Passing electrons through a double-slit apparatus.
What happens when monochromatic light with sufficient energy shines onto a material exhibiting photoelectric effect?
The material reflects all incoming light due transmission capabilities being saturated by specific wavelengths.
The material increases temperature uniformly since light acts as heat transferring waves.
The material becomes polarized absorbing specific vibrations from the light waves' electric field component.
The material emits electrons due to absorbed quanta offered by incident photons.
If two identical point charges experience an electrostatic attraction when separated by distance in air, which scenario would result in decreased magnitude of attraction if all else remains constant?
Replacing air with vacuum should reduce electric field strength creating lesser attritional forces.
Increasing distance between charges beyond while keeping everything else constant has no effect on attractional forces.
Increasing each charge's magnitude will lead to decreased attritional forces owing to increased repulsive pressure.
Replacing air with a medium having higher permittivity than air's will decrease the magnitude.

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What is the SI unit for electric charge?
Volt
Coulomb
Ohm
Ampere
What experimental observation by Coulomb supported the law that describes the electric force between two charges?
The force between two charges is proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
The force between two charges is independent of the medium in which they are placed.
The force between two charges decreases linearly with increasing distance.
The force between two like charges is attractive.
According to Coulomb’s Law, what happens to the electric force between two charges if the distance between them is doubled?
The electric force is quartered.
The electric force is halved.
The electric force is doubled.
The electric force remains unchanged.