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Electrostatics

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

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

Question 2
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 3
college-boardPhysics C: E&MAPExam Style
1 mark

What unit is used to measure electric potential?

Question 4
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 5
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?

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

In comparison to an isolated parallel plate capacitor with vacuum between its plates, how does inserting a dielectric material with permittivity ε affect its capacitive storage of electrical potential energy?

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

What does a positive test charge experience when placed in an area with zero electric field strength?

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

What happens to the electric potential difference across a capacitor when the separation between its plates is doubled while keeping the charge constant?

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

A nonconducting sphere carries a uniform volume charge density; what happens to the potential difference between its surface and a point halfway to its center as you move that interior point closer to the sphere's center?

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

When comparing an infinite sheet of positive charge with a positively charged ring, both producing an electric field in space above them, for which configuration does this field decay more rapidly with increasing distance from it?