You have a summer job with the power company investigating the vulnerability of power lines to...
Need help with physics problem. You have a summer job with the telephone company investigating the vulnerability of underground telephone lines to natural disasters. Your task is to write a computer program that will be used determine the possible harm to a telephone wire from the high electric fields caused by lightning. The underground telephone wire is supported in the center of a long, straight steel pipe that protects it. When lightening hits the ground it charges the steel pipe....
1. Parallel plates. You have two equal but oppositely charged parallel conducting plates, separated by 10 cm. A voltmeter shows that the potential difference between the plates is 500 V. (a) Which is at a higher potential, the positive or negative plate? (b) How big is the electric field between the plates? (c) You let go of an electron next to the negative plate. How much work does the electric field do in moving the electron to the positive plate?...