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What is the excess charge on a conducting sphere of radius r=0.35 m if the potential of the sphere is 1500 V and V=0 at infinity?

Important Questions on Electric Potential

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Two large parallel metal plates are 1.5 cm apart and have charges of equal magnitudes, but opposite signs on their facing surfaces. Take the potential of the negative plate to be zero. If the potential halfway between the plates is then +10.0 V, what is the electric field in the region between the plates?
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The electric field in a region of space has the components Ey=Ez=0 and Ex=4.00x2 N C-1. The point A is on the y axis at y=3.00 m and the point B is on the x axis at x=4.00 m. What is the potential difference VB-VA (in volt)?

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In the figure, a plastic rod which has a uniformly distributed charge Q=-28.9 pC has been bent into a circular arc of a radius R=3.71 cm and the central angle ϕ=120°. With V=0 at infinity, what is the electric potential at P, the centre of curvature of the rod?

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In the given figure, what is the net electric potential at the origin due to the circular arc of charge Q1=+7.21 pC, the two particles of charges Q2=4.00Q1 and Q3=-2.00Q1? The arc's centre of curvature is at the origin and its radius is R=2.00 m, the angle indicated is θ=35.0°. What is the net electric potential at the origin if both Q1 and R are doubled?

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Consider a particle with charge q=3.0 nC, point A at distance d1=2.0 m from q and the point B at distance d2=1.0 m. If A and B are diametrically opposite to each other as in the figure, (a) what is the electric potential difference VA-VB? (b) what is the electric potential difference if A and B are located as in the figure (b)?

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The electric potential at points in an xy plane is given by, V=2.00 V m-2x2-3.00 V m-2y2. What are,

(a) the magnitude and (b) the angle (relative to +x) of the electric field at the point (4.00 m, 2.00 m)?

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Two charged particles are shown in figure. (a) Particle 1, with charge q1, is fixed in place at distance d. Particle 2, with charge q2, can be moved along the x-axis. Figure (b) gives the net electric potential V at the origin due to the two particles as a function of the x-co-ordinate of particle 2. The scale of the x-axis is set by, xs=16.0 cm. The plot has an asymptote of V=5.92×10-7 V as x. What is q2 in terms of e?

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An infinite non-conducting sheet has a surface charge density, σ=+5.80 pC m2.

(a) How much work is done by the electric field due to the sheet if a particle of charge, q=+1.60×10-19 C is moved from the sheet to a point P at distance, d=6.15 cm from the sheet?

(b) If the electric potential V is defined to be -5.00 mV on the sheet, what is V at P?