What is the direction of the electric field at the observation location A due to piece 2?

What is the direction of the electric field at the observation location A due to piece 7?

A 7

What is the direction of the electric field at the observation location A due to the two pieces 2 and 7?

A 7

What is the direction of the electric field at the observation location A due to all eight pieces?

A 7

What is the direction of the electric field at the observation location A if the rod has a uniform charge of -Q?

A 7

A rod of length L has a uniform charge of +Q. The rod is divided into equal pieces of length x as shown. What is the charge Q on one slice?

1) 2) 3) 4)

QL/x Qx/L Q(L-x)/L 2QL/x

What are the limits of integration?

1) 2) 3) 4) 5)

0 to to + L to + L L/2 to +L/2 0 to L

Which will give us a more exact result:

1) Dividing the rod into a few slices and adding up the electric field of each slice by hand. 2) Dividing the rod into many slices and adding up the electric field of each slice using a computer. 3) Dividing the rod into infinitesimally small slices and adding the electric field of each slice using integration.

Q15.1a Here is a rod lying on the y axis. It is uniformly charged positive.

What is the direction of the net electric field at location A?

Q15.4a Uniformly charged ring of charge Q and radius R What is Q, expressed in terms of given constants and an integration variable?

1) 2) 3) 4) 5)

Q / Q / (2 R) Q* / (2 R) Q* / 2 Q*R*/(2 R)

Q15.4b Uniformly charged ring of charge Q and radius R What are the integration limits?

1) 2) 3) 4) 5)

0 to to + 0 to 0 to 2 2 to +2

Q15.4c By thinking about the physical situation, predict the magnitude of the electric field at the center of a uniformly charged ring of radius R carrying a charge +Q. Then use the formula we just derived to confirm this result.

1) E = 1/(40) Q/z2 2) E = 1/(40) Qz/R3 3) E = 0 4) E =

Q15.7a The electric field at any location inside a hollow, uniformly charged sphere, due to the charge on the surface of the sphere, is zero. True or false? 1) True, because the electric field can't penetrate the material of the sphere 2) True, because the contributions of all the charges on the surface add up to zero at every location inside the sphere. 3) True, but only at the center of the sphere, where all the contributions cancel. 4) False, because the electric field due to the surface charges penetrates the sphere.