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Electrostatics

Question 1
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

When comparing electric field lines originating from infinitely long straight wires with uniform linear charge densities of different magnitudes, what trend should we expect?

Question 2
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

A hollow metallic sphere with a point charge located at its center creates an electric potential V0V_0V0​ at its surface; if this point charge is replaced with another point charge of double magnitude, what will be the new potential at the surface of this metallic sphere?

Question 3
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

What unit is used to measure electric potential (voltage)?

Question 4
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

How would you express the potential VVV at a distance rrr from a point charge qqq if you were only given the electric field magnitude E=kqr2E = \frac{kq}{r^2}E=r2kq​ without integrating directly?

Question 5
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

A long cylindrical conductor carries a uniformly distributed free charge along its length; if V(r)V(r)V(r) represents potential at a distance rrr from its axis, how does V(r)V(r)V(r) change outside the conductor?

Question 6
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

What type of material will have its free electrons immobilized when an external electric field is applied?

Question 7
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

What unit is used to measure electric potential?

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Question 8
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

In an infinite plane sheet carrying uniform surface charge density σ\sigmaσ, what is an expression for electric potential difference ΔV\Delta VΔV between two points y1y_{1}y1​ and y2y_{2}y2​ perpendicular to the plane?

Question 9
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

What is the self-energy UUU of a non-conducting solid sphere of radius RRR with volume charge density ρ\rhoρ distributed uniformly throughout its volume using energy density u=(ε02)E2u=\left(\frac{\varepsilon_0}{2}\right)E^2u=(2ε0​​)E2?

Question 10
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

For two parallel non-conducting sheets each uniformly charged but with opposite sign charges (+σ and −σ respectively), what would be true about any external effects outside these sheets if they were brought infinitely close together without touching?