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Electric Charge, Fields and Potential. AP PHYSICS GIANCOLI CH.16 & 17. Physics Olympics Grades/Missing work pHet Notes Homework: Set due Wednesday, makeup lab reports due tomorrow. pHet Simulations. Use the PHET simulation to learn about electric charges and their effects. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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AP PHYSICSGIANCOLI CH.16 & 17
Electric Charge, Fields and Potential
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Physics OlympicsGrades/Missing workpHetNotes
Homework: Set due Wednesday, makeup lab reports due tomorrow
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pHet Simulations
Use the PHET simulation to learn about electric charges and their effects.
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Answer the Following Questions…
Electricity, magnets, circuits: Balloons and static electricity
How positive and negative charges behave?Why does a balloon stick to the wall?
Charges + Fields:What does the field around a positive charge
look like?Draw in equipotential linesWhat about a negative charge?
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Electric Charges
Understanding of electricity originates within the atom. Why? Full of + and – charged particles Like charges attract and unlike charges repel Most material is electrically neutral same # of + & -
charges Excess Charge Accumulation happens when two dissimilar
materials rub against one another. One material gains electrons (- charge) the other loses
electrons (+charge) Balloon and Sweater (balloon is - and the sweater is + )
Charge by inductionBringing a charged object close to a neutral object produces a temporary charge separation in the object.
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Electroscopes
Shows the presence of electric charge & can Metal plate and plastic(metal plate is + and the plastic is
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Electric Forces
Finding the electric force between two charged particles is easy (with the help of Coulomb’s Law). But the problems get more difficult when more than two charges are involved.
Strategy:1.Calculate the individual forces on the charge
from each additional charge2.Add the force vectors to find the sum or net
force.
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Equilibrium Problems
The place where a charge can be located for it to experience zero total force is called its equilibrium position.
Strategy:1.Use logic to find the general region of space
for the equilibrium position.2.Set the force due to one charge equal to the
force due to a second charge.
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Gravitational Fields
A field represents the size and direction of the force felt by test particle. Size : acceleration of gravity (m/s2) at a particular
point is equal to the gravitational field strength (N/kg).
Sea level = 9.81N/kg Everest = 9.80N/kg 1/10 of the distance to the Moon = 0.27 N/kg Moon = 0.0027N/kg ½ of the distance to the center of the Earth = 39.3 N/kg
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Visual Representation of Earth’s Grav. Field
Arrows / Vectors represent the size and direction of the gravitational field strength.
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Electric Fields
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Electric Fields
A charged particle can be thought of as filling the space around it with an electric field waiting to exert forces on any test charge that enters into it. The E-field at any point in space is a vector whose magnitude is the force per unit charge that would act on the test charge, and whose direction is the same as the direction of force that would act on a positive point charge.
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Electric Fields and Conductors
A charge is induced on the surface of the conductor which creates an additional E-field same in size and opposite in direction to the external E-field, canceling it! “Shielding”
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Shielding and Faraday Cages
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Electric Fields and Conductors
A charge inside a neutral spherical shell induces charge on its surfaces. The electric field exists even beyond the shell but not within the conductor itself.
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Electrical Energy and Potential Difference
As a charge moves from point A to B in some path, the electric force does work on the charge. (W = Fd)
Potential energy is important when dealing with charges moving in E-fields, but we also define a new quantity electric potential as the electric potential energy per unit charge.
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Electrical Energy and Potential Difference
Electric potential depends on the charge outside the field, not on any charge that is inside the field.
Because potential energy is dependent upon some arbitrary potential, only changes in potential energy are meaningful. Similarly, we will most always speak in terms of the change in potential (or potential difference) between two points.
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Equipotential Lines
Areas of equal potential /voltage. A charge placed at any location of an equipotential line will have the same electrical energy. No work is required to move it along that line.
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Gravitational Analogy
Think about a rock falling from the top of a cliff. The amount of work that the gravitational field will do on the rock as it falls depends on how much its energy changes during the fall – which really depends on the height of the cliff and the mass of the rock.
A large rock and a small rock can be at the same height and therefore have the same gravitational potential (J/kg), but the larger rock has the greater energy because of its larger mass.
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Gravitational and Electrical Comparison
Both charges and both masses have the same potential (J/C or J/kg), but the larger charge and mass have more energy because of their size.
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Gravitational and Electrical Comparison
The work done by the E-field in moving the charge from one charged plate to the other depends on both the potential difference (like the height of the cliff), and the charge placed in the field (like the mass of the rock).
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Gravitational and Electrical Comparison
Difference: electric charge can either be negative or positive, whereas gravitational mass is always positive. Positive charges act similarly to gravitational objects in that they move naturally from high to low potential. Negative charges do the opposite, moving naturally from low to high.
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Example Problem:
How much work does the electric field do in moving a proton (q = 1.6x10-19C) from ground (0V) to a point whose potential is 70V?
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Potential and E-Fields
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Example Problem
A +5C charge moves 3cm parallel to a uniform electric field of magnitude 300V/m. What potential difference did the charge move through?
Potential Difference (V) = 9 volts
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The Electron Volt
The S.I. unit of work or energy, the Joule, is a very large unit if you dealing with energies of very small particles (like electrons, for example).
So we define a new unit of energy, the electron volt, as the energy acquired by an electron (or similarly charged particle) as a result of moving through a potential difference of 1 Volt.
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Potential Due to Point Charges
You can calculate the potential at a distance r from a single point charge. (This is similar to calculating the E-field created by a point charge)
Because only a difference in potential is meaningful, we must define a location at which potential equals zero. For a point charge at some point in space, we say V = 0 at infinity.
Potential is a scalar quantity, but its sign still matters.
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Example Problem
Three charges are arranged as shown in the figure. Find the electric potential at the position of the 3nC charge. Then find how much energy would be expended in moving the 3nC charge to infinity.
Potential Difference (V) = 64V, Energy = 1.92x10-7J
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Capacitance
Capacitors are devices used in circuits to store charge and energy. They usually consist of two parallel metal plates separated by some distance. When each plate is hooked up to a terminal of a battery, electrons are pulled off one of the plates and deposited on the other plate. It is found that the amount of charge acquired by each plate is proportional to the magnitude of the potential difference between them. Capacitance is the constant of proportionality, relating charge to potential difference.
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Various Capacitors
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Capacitors
The capacitance of a capacitor depends on the geometric arrangement of the plates (size, shape and relative position).
For a parallel plate capacitor:
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Example Problem
Each plate of a parallel-plate capacitor has an area of 4.0 cm2 and the plates are separated by a distance of 2.3mm. If it stores a charge of 300pC, what is the potential difference across the plates of the capacitor?
Potential Difference (V) = 195 volts
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Dielectrics
The previous expression for capacitance based on the geometric arrangement of the plates assumes that the space between the plates is filled with air or a vacuum. In most capacitors there is actually a sheet of material, such as paper or plastic, called a dielectric between the plates.
The purpose of this dielectric is that dielectrics do not break down (allow electric charge to flow) as easily as air. So the plates may be closer together, and the voltage across the capacitor may be increased when using a dielectric.
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Capacitance with Dielectrics
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Example Problem
What is the capacitance of two plates of area 25cm2 that are separated by 8mm of paper?
Capacitance = 1.02x10-11F or 10.2pF
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Storing Electric Energy
The energy stored in a capacitor is equal to the work needed to move all of the charge from one plate to another, across the potential difference (V) between the plates.
Ex: How much energy is stored in a 2200pF capacitor that is connected across a
650V source?
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Time to work on homework if left over….