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Electrostatics Quiz - HP Name: ________________________________ Multiple Choice - Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ ____ ____ 1. What happens when a rubber rod is rubbed with a piece of fur, giving it a negative charge? a. Protons are removed from the rod. c. Electrons are added to the fur. b. Electrons are added to the rod. d. The fur is left neutral. 2. A repelling force occurs between two charged objects when the charges are of a. unlike signs. c. equal magnitude. b. like signs. d. unequal magnitude. 3. Electric charge is a. found only in a conductor. c. found only in insulators. b. conserved. d. not conserved. ____ 4. In the diagram shown above, the circles represent small balls that have electric charges. Ball 1 has a negative charge, and ball 2 is repelled by ball 1. Next, you see that ball 2 repels ball 3 and that ball 3 attracts ball 4. What is the electric charge on ball 4? a. Ball 4 may have either a positive or negative charge. b. Ball 4 has a negative charge. c. Ball 4 has a positive charge. d. It is not possible to determine the charge on ball 4. ____ 5. Which statement is the most correct regarding electric insulators? a. Charges within electric insulators do not readily move. b. Electric insulators have high tensile strength. c. Electric charges move freely in electric insulators. d. Electric insulators are good heat conductors. ____ 6. The process of charging a conductor by bringing it near another charged object and then grounding the conductor is called a. contact charging. c. polarization b. induction. d. neutralization. ______ 7. Which of the following is not true for both gravitational and electric forces? a. The inverse square distance law applies. b. Forces are proportional to physical properties. c. Potential energy is a function of distance of separation. d. Forces are either attractive or repulsive. ______ 8. Two point charges, initially 2 cm apart, are moved to a distance of 10 cm apart. By what factor does the resulting electric force between them change? a. 25 c. b. 5 d. ______ 9. Two positive charges, each of magnitude q, are on the y-axis at points y = +a and y = –a. Where would a third positive charge of the same magnitude be located for the net force on the third charge to be zero? a. at the origin c. at y = –2a b. at y = 2a d. at y = –a ______ 10. Where is the electric field of an isolated, uniformly charged, hollow metallic sphere greatest? a. at the center of the sphere c. at infinity b. at the sphere’s inner surface d. at the sphere’s outer surface ______ 11. Electric field strength depends on a. charge and distance. c. Coulomb constant and mass. b. charge and mass. d. elementary charge and radius. ______ 12. Electric field strength is defined as a. the force exerted on a test charge. b. the force per unit positive charge. c. the force per unit charge. d. the force per unit charge exerted on a positive test charge. ______ 13. The diagram to the right shows two positive point charges of equal magnitude. A negative point charge is placed at P. Which one of the following diagrams best shows the direction of the resultant force on the negative charge at P? A. B. P + C. + + D. P + P + + P + + 14. What property was discovered in Millikan’s experiments? Explain this property. (3pts) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Describe how a neutral material, such as paper, becomes attracted to a negatively charged object brought near it. (3pts) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Draw some representative electric field lines for two charges of q and q separated by a small distance. (3pts) 17. An alpha particle (charge 2.0e) is sent at high speed toward a gold nucleus (charge 79e). How far apart are they when the force between them is 91N? (3pts) 18. Charge A and charge B are 2.2 m apart. Charge A is 1.0 C, and charge B is 2.0 C. Charge C, which is 2.0 C, is located between them and is in electrostatic equilibrium. How far from charge A is charge C? (3pts) 19. Two equal positive charges, both q = 2.0 10 C, interact with a third charge, Q = 4.0 10 C, as shown in the figure above. What is the magnitude of the electric force on Q? (k = 8.99 10 Nm /C ) (3pts) 20. An electron and a proton are each placed at rest in an external uniform electric field of magnitude 350 N/C. Calculate the speed of each particle after 64 ns. (3pts) For retake: 19. Show that the definition of electric field strength (E Felectric /q0) is equivalent to the equation E kCq/r 2 for point charges 20. An electron is accelerated by a constant electric field of magnitude 300.0 N/C. a. Find the acceleration of the electron. b. Find the electron’s displacement after 1.00 108 s, assuming it starts from rest.