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What is the force on the 1.0nC charge in the figure? Give the magnitude

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a.) What is the force of the 1.0 nC in the figure (in Newtons)


b.) Give the direction (degrees above horizontal)


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Answer #1

The force acting on \(1 \mathrm{nC}\) due to \(2 \mathrm{nC}\) separated by

\(1 \mathrm{~cm}\) is given by

$$ \begin{aligned} F_{1}=\frac{1}{4 \pi \varepsilon_{0}} \frac{q_{1} q_{2}}{r^{2}} &=9 \times 10^{9} \frac{\left(1 \times 10^{-9}\right)\left(2 \times 10^{-9}\right)}{(0.01)^{2}} \\ &=18 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N} \end{aligned} $$

And this force is repulsive.

Resolving the force \(F_{1}\) into components

The horizontal component is

$$ \mathrm{F}_{1 x}=\mathrm{F}_{1} \cos \theta=\left(18 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N}\right) \cos \left(60^{0}\right)=9 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N} $$

And the vertical component is

$$ F_{1 y}=F_{1} \sin \theta=\left(18 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N}\right) \sin \left(60^{\circ}\right)=15.58 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N} $$

Similarly

The force acting on \(1 \mathrm{nC}\) due to \(-2 \mathrm{nC}\) separated by

\(1 \mathrm{~cm}\) is given by

$$ \begin{aligned} F_{2}=\frac{1}{4 \pi \varepsilon_{0}} \frac{q_{1} q_{2}}{r^{2}} &=9 \times 10^{9} \frac{\left(1 \times 10^{-9}\right)\left(2 \times 10^{-9}\right)}{(0.01)^{2}} \\ &=18 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N} \end{aligned} $$

And this force is attractive.

Resolving the force \(\mathrm{F}_{2}\) into components

The horizontal component is

$$ F_{2 x}=F_{2} \cos \theta=\left(18 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N}\right) \cos \left(-60^{\circ}\right)=9 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N} $$

And the vertical component is

$$ \mathrm{F}_{2 y}=\mathrm{F}_{2} \sin \theta=\left(18 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N}\right) \sin \left(-60^{\circ}\right)=-15.58 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N} $$

The net force acting along horizontal direction is

$$ \mathrm{F}_{x}=\mathrm{F}_{1 x}+\mathrm{F}_{2 x}=9 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N}+9 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N}=18 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N} $$

The net force acting along vertical direction is

$$ \mathrm{F}_{y}=\mathrm{F}_{2 y}+\mathrm{F}_{2 y}=15.58 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N}-15.58 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N}=0 $$

Hence the net force acting on \(1 \mathrm{nC}\) charge is

\(F=18 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~N}\)

and the direction it makes with the \(\mathrm{x}\) - axis is \(0^{0}\)

In vector form \(F=18 \times 10^{-5} \hat{i}\).

answered by: Navtright

> Did you perhaps forget a decimal point between 1 and 8? It should be 1.8 and should also be 10^-4 instead of 10^-5

echoecho Sun, Jan 16, 2022 5:37 PM

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Answer #2

F1 = 1.8*10^-4 cos60 + 1.8*10^-4 sin60

F3 = 1.8*10^-4 cos60 - 1.8*10^-4 sin60

Fnet = F1+F3 = 1.8 * 10 ^-4 N


The direction of the force is to the right

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