EEE23 (THW and WFR) 2nd Semester, 2011-2012 DUE: TUESDAY DEC 6, 2011, 12:59pm.

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Problem 1: Vectors and Coordinate Systems Shown below is your prototype for a lever-arm mechanism. You have a lever connected to the origin and is represented by a L and another green member on the direction of dN . The green member's direction is the same as the direction of the crossproduct of lever a L and an imaginary (fixed) unit vector a x (or N = a La x ), thus, a change in a L changes the direction of the green member. Lever a L only allows d o o o angular movements on the range 0 <L <180 and it is bound to L =45 relative to the xz-plane. Given the green member has a length of 3 units: (a) What is d N in <x,y,z> along the green z-axis member if L =30o ? L =120o ? L =85o ?

dN
a x L =45
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(b) Find the angle L that would make the green member or d N lie on the z+ y=0 plane . (c) Now, find the L that would make the green member as close as possible to point (x,y,z) = (-1,2,3). (d) Transform the vector originating from the tip of your green member in (c) to point (x,y,z) = (-1,2,3) to spherical coordinates.

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Figure 1. Lever-arm prototype Problem 2: Coulomb's Law A system of point charges is said to be in equilibrium if the magnitude and direction of the force experienced by any charge is the same as that experienced by any of the other charges. Suppose that we have one point charge located at the origin with charge -9e and the other located d distance away from the first charge and carries a net charge of -36e. Determine the location, polarity, and magnitude of a third charge whose placement along the line containing the two charges would bring the entire system into equilibrium. Problem 3: Continuous Charge Distribution I a) A horizontal strip lying in the xy plane is of width d in the y-direction and infinitely long in the x-direction. If the strip has a uniform charge distribution s, use Coulombs law to obtain an explicit expression for the electric field at a point P located at a distance h above the centerline of the strip. Extend your result to the special case where d is infinite. Hint: You can think of the horizontal strip as a set of infinite line charges adjacent to one another.

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b) Using Coulombs Law, set-up the integral needed to solve for the electric field at a point P along the zaxis and below the vertex of a paraboloid defined by z=x 2+ y 2 for 0 z 4, shown in Figure 2 . Assume that the paraboloid has a uniform charge density S .

Figure 2. Surface charge defined by a paraboloid Problem 4: Electrostatic Force I In the Cartesian coordinate system, an infinite plane of surface charge density 1 nC/m 2 lies in the plane defined by x = -1, an infinite line of line charge density -2 nC/m lies in the z axis, and a point charge of 5nC lies at P(4, 0, 0). Find the net electrostatic force: a) exerted by the point charge on the infinite plane, b) exerted by the point charge on the infinite line, c) experienced by the point charge. Problem 5: Electrostatic Force II Shown in Figure 3 is a setup for electrostatic separation of granular solids. In this setup, a mixture consisting of small particles of ash and coal are electrically charged and are separated by applying a uniform electric field from two very large deflecting plates each having constant surface charge densities S1 and E S2 . Since coal and ash particles will have opposite charge polarities, they will be deflected by the electric field to different directions. Assumptions: - zero initial velocities and displacements - only gravity and the force due the electric field induced by the plates affect the motion of the particles. - disregard the effect of all other forces (ie. the Coulombic forces between the ash and coal particles, the force due to the motion of the charged particles, etc.) Find: a. The electric field vector induced by the plates. E b. The separation between the particles after falling 1 meter. S1 = -5.312 C/m2 S2 = 5.312 C/m2 |charge per mass ratio| = |Q/m| = 10 C/kg for both the coal and ash. (coal and ash particulates will have different charge polarities)
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Figure 3. Setup for electrostatic separation of granular solids Problem 6: Streamlines The electric field intensity in space due to a particular charge configuration is
3 2 E=10 x x 5yx y . a a

a) Find and plot the streamline that passes through P (4,1,1). Note that the differential equation E y dy = describing the lines is for any z = constant plane. E x dx b) Is the particular streamline (in a) the same as that for the electric field at Q(16, 0.5, 1)?

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