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Force due to combination of free space and dielectric
I will make a generalized form of my question.
There are two point charges $q$, $x$ distance apart.
And there is a dielectric slab of thickness $t$ and of dielectric constant $K$.
Should the force ...
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About the electrostatic voltage
What's the difference between electrostatic voltage and normal voltage, like the battery's voltage.
How to calculate the charge on a charged plate if we knew its electrostatic voltage?
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Negative Mass and gravitation
Since Newtonian gravity is analogous to electrostatics shouldn't there be something called negative mass? Also, a moving charge generates electric field, but why doesn't a moving mass generate some ...
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Topological vs. non-topological noetherian charges
What (if any) is the relationship between the conserved (non-topological) noetherian charges and topological charges? Namely, is there any "generalization" of the Noether's first theorem that includes ...
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Charge on capacitor plates in series combination?
Suppose 2 capacitors are connected in series, the plates connected to the battery terminals receive charges $+q$ and $-q$, and the isolated plates in the combination receive equal and opposite charges ...
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Is there a momentum for charge?
Since mass and charge behave similarly, so, just like center of mass, I define a point center of charge, that is defined by
$$\vec r_{qm} = \frac {\sum{q_i \vec r_i}} {\sum{q_i}}$$
where $\vec r_i$ ...
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Effect of charges near a parallel plate capacitor
If I charged a parallel plate capacitor. And then, I insert a charged body near one of the plates.
Will there be any interactions like attraction or repulsion?
What if I disconnected the battery?
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Why does the comb attract the pieces of papers if they're neutral?
When we rub our hairs with a comb, and then try to attract small pieces of paper, they're attracted by the comb. The pieces of the paper were not electrified before they were attracted. Then they ...
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Early Concepts in Relation with the Forces Produced When Certain Pairs of Objects are Rubbed Together
It was found centuries ago that these materials: wool cloth and paraffin wax, glass rod and silk cloth when rubbed against each other attracted one another. While two glass rods when rubbed against ...
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( Legendre Generating Function) Off axis Electric Potential from an insulated disk
An insulated disk, uniform surface charge density $\sigma$, of radius $R$ is laid on the $x,y$ plane. Deduce the electric potential $V(z)$ along the z-axis. Next consider an off axis point $p'$, ...
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What types of materials can be electrically charged by rubbing?
What types of materials can be electrically charged by rubbing? Is there a certain type of materials in which static electricity can be produced by rubbing together two different materials?
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Definition of Static Electricity
The result of an imbalance of electrons between objects is called static electricity. It is called "static" because the displaced electrons tend to remain stationary after being moved from one ...
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Definition of electric charge and proper explanation
Is there a definition of electric charge and proper explanation of it?
It is said "Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when close to other ...
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Charging Glass Rods
When we rub two glass rods with their respective pieces of silk cloth, the two glass rods would repel each other. What if we rub the glass rod against the other glass rod? Will they repel each other? ...
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Infinite Energy of Point Charges (in the context of classical field theories)
In the context of classical physics,is there any renormalization method to avoid infinite energy of point charges?
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Finding the Steady State Charges
Here the problem states to find the steady state charges on the condensers.
But here the capacitor have a resistance in parallel connection , so how can we distribute the potential drop across ...
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Semiconductor problem: how much Boron is required to establish a certain amount of charge carrier density
The problem description is as follows:
Boron is used to dope 1 kg of germanium (Ge). How much boron (B) is required to establish a charge carrier density of 3.091 x 10^17 / cm^3. One mole of ...
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Electrostatic Potential Energy Calculation (Sign Problem)
In the derivation of electrostatic potential energy ,
how is $ds=-dr$ step justified ?
Why we use a differential position vector ? Why doesn't directly work and potential energy give the correct ...
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What is the process that gives quarks fractional electric charge? [duplicate]
I've heard always that quarks has fractional electric charge, How do we know that quarks has fractional electric charge?
what is the process that gives quarks its fractional electric charge?
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Energy content after moving point charge [closed]
I have the following exercise:
In point A there is a charge with $Q_1 = 3.3\times10^{-5} C$
In point B charge $Q_2 = 8.5\times10^{-6} C$
In point C charge $Q_3 = -6\times10^{-6} C$
This happens ...
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Why do aqueous solutions always “have to be” electrically neutral?
I was reviewing some analytical chemistry and stumbled upon a section that explained the imperfection of using a salt bridge.
It said that the using dissimilar ions is a problem because in, for ...
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Induced charge on sphere
I have a conducting sphere ($radius = a$) at potential $V_0$. It is enclosed by another thin shell ($radius = b, b > a$) which has a charge density $\sigma (\theta) = \sigma_0 \cos(\theta)$ for the ...
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Regarding the free electrons on the conductor
In a metal, why don’t the free electrons fall to the bottom of the metal due to gravity?
Also, charges in a conductor are supposed to reside on the surface so why don’t the free electrons all go to ...
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why is the charge transferred by electrons and not by protons?
charges are transferred by electrons which we all know but why it cant but it cant be transferred by protons.Well i searched on google where i found similar questions already being asked on many ...
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Paradox with Gauss' law when space is uniformly charged everywhere
Consider that space is uniformly charged everywhere, i.e., filled with a uniform charge distribution, $\rho$, everywhere.
By symmetry, the electric field is zero everywhere. (If I take any point in ...
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Do objects have energy because of their charge?
My gut feeling tells me things should have energy because of their charge, like they have energy because of their mass.
Is this possible? Has it been shown? If not then what is missing to make such ...
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Static electrical attraction [closed]
Coulomb's law is used to calculate the electrical attraction between 2 charged particles, what formula do I use to calculate an electrical attraction magnitude between 2 plates? Let's assume the first ...
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If photons can be absorbed by electrons, wouldn't that mean light has a charge? [duplicate]
I am a biochemistry and molecular biology major. If photons can be absorbed by electrons, wouldn't that mean light has a charge? Electrons only attract positive charges. Isn't it?
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How quark electric charge directly have been measured?
How quarks electric charge directly have been measured when quarks never directly observed in isolation? (Due to a phenomenon known as color confinement.)
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How can I prevent my son building up static on his trampoline?
Whenever my three year old son plays on his trampoline, it doesn't take very long for him to start building up a significant amount of static electricity. His hair stands on end (which is quite ...
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Why do we have an elementary charge but no elementary mass?
Why do we have an elementary charge $e$ in physics but no elementary mass? Is an elementary mass ruled out by experiment or is an elementary mass forbidden by some theoretical reason?
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Make water droplets charged?
Normally water molecules are electrically neutral.
But I have seen somewhere ideas about electric energy generators mentioning that water droplets might be used in some applications as they are ...
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Facts About Quarks Electric Charge [duplicate]
Quarks have the unusual characteristic of having a fractional electric charge.
here there is a new model that suggests maybe an up Quark has no electric charge and infact down Quark has electric ...
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How can I find the position of an image charge when the boundary is parabolic or hyperbolic?
If the position of some charge Q is known, the boundary condition is u=0 on some parabolic surface, and we know the image charge has its electric volume of Q', then how can I determine the position of ...
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A ring placed along $y^2 + z^2 = 4$, $x = 0$ carries a uniform charge of $5 \mu\ C/m$. Find $D$ at $P(3,0,0)$ [closed]
A ring placed along $y^2 + z^2 = 4$, $x = 0$ carries a uniform charge of $5 \mu\ C/m$.
Find $D$ at $P(3,0,0)$
How do I solve this using Coulomb's Law? I used $dE=\dfrac{dQ}{4\pi\epsilon_0 ...
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Find the dielectric constant of the medium?
Two point charges a distance $d$ apart in free space exert a force of $1.4\times10^{-4}N$. When the free space is replaced by a homogeneous dielectric medium, the force becomes $0.9\times10^{-4}N$. ...
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What defines the maximum charge a capacitor can store?
The formula for a capacitor discharging is $Q=Q_0e^{-\frac{t}{RC}}$
Where $Q_0$ is the maximum charge. But what property defines the maximum charge a capacitor can store?
If it depends on ...
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Total positive charge in the Universe
In their last homework, some of my students miscalculated a charge to be $10^{20}$ C over a squared meter and I was wondering if there was as much positive charges in the entire Universe. It would do ...
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Is electron velocity at induction higher than in a wire?
When looking to the electrostatic induction on a microscopic level, do the electrons really move with high velocities or they move like when a current passes through the wire (slowly).
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Parallel capacitors without battery. Does charge flowing after a dielectric input?
If I charge two capacitors which are connected parallel $[$the minus (-) of the one opposite to the minus (-) of the other and the plus(+) of the one opposite to the plus (+) of the other.$]$, will I ...
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Does the electric field inside a sphere change if point charge isn't in center?
As i understood , if you have a point charge in the center of a hollow conducting sphere then the electric field inside it, is zero because the charge distribution is spherically symmetric.
But ...
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Two capacitors sharing charge
My two capacitors:
I have these two capacitors ($C_1 = 3\mu F, C_2 = 4\mu F$) both initially under 19 volts. Then, I added a dielectric with $k=4$ at $C_1$ and entire ...
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What's the electric field with a point charge not in the center of the sphere? [closed]
That's a hollow conducting sphere link
My charge is at P (10uC). R = 0.15m. PS = 0.05m. DS = 0.35m. What's the electric field at point D?
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Why doesn't a gaussian surface pass through discrete charges?
I have read that Gaussian surface cannot pass through discrete charges. Why is it so?
I have even seen in application of Gauss' Law when we imagine a Gaussian Surface passing through a charge ...
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Charge residing on an overpolished surface
I had very well read that when charge is stored on a rough surface, the leakage is very high from the pointed tips of such surfaces, by a phenomenon called action of points. But now, I've come to know ...
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Electrostatic potential and charge
Say we have a balloon, negatively charged, the voltage on it is 500 V. Can I measure the charge on it or in other words, the number of excess electrons?
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Electrostatic induction
Is this a correct definition of electrostatic induction, The production of opposite charges on a neutral body when a charged body is brought near to it? I think it's not the production but ...
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Electric field of a negative charge
Displacing something against the gravitational field, gains it potential energy. Moving something against the nature requires work. If the electric field of a negative source charge 'Q' points inward, ...
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Electric field of a negative charge
How was it discovered that the electric field of a negative charge points towards the charge itself? Is it true?
(Courtesy of wikipedia)
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Origin of electric charge
Baryons have charges that are the result of a polynomial calculation of their building blocks (quarks)'s fractional charges. But what gives these quarks electric charges? What interactions do they ...
