Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field. There are two types of electric charge: positive and negative (commonly carried by protons and electrons respectively). Like charges repel each other and unlike charges attract each other. An object with an absence of net charge is referred to as neutral. Early knowledge of how charged substances interact is now called classical electrodynamics, and is still accurate for problems that do not require consideration of quantum effects.
Electric charge is a conserved property; the net charge of an isolated system, the amount of positive charge minus the amount of negative charge, cannot change. Electric charge is carried by subatomic particles. In ordinary matter, negative charge is carried by electrons, and positive charge is carried by the protons in the nuclei of atoms. If there are more electrons than protons in a piece of matter, it will have a negative charge, if there are fewer it will have a positive charge, and if there are equal numbers it will be neutral. Charge is quantized; it comes in integer multiples of individual small units called the elementary charge, e, about 1.602×10−19 coulombs, which is the smallest charge which can exist freely (particles called quarks have smaller charges, multiples of 1/3e, but they are only found in combination, and always combine to form particles with integer charge). The proton has a charge of +e, and the electron has a charge of −e.
Electric charges produce electric fields. A moving charge also produces a magnetic field. The interaction of electric charges with an electromagnetic field (combination of electric and magnetic fields) is the source of the electromagnetic (or Lorentz) force, which is one of the four fundamental forces in physics. The study of photon-mediated interactions among charged particles is called quantum electrodynamics.The SI derived unit of electric charge is the coulomb (C) named after French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. In electrical engineering it is also common to use the ampere-hour (Ah). In physics and chemistry it is common to use the elementary charge (e as a unit). Chemistry also uses the Faraday constant as the charge on a mole of electrons. The lowercase symbol q often denotes charge.
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1. Homework Statement
Consider a sphere with a uniform distribution of charge ρ (ro). Inside the sphere is a cavity (spherical). Calculate the...
When protons, due to their electric charge, interact with photons are the quarks somehow also involved in this same electric interaction? After all, the quarks do have fractional electric charges.
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so it 2 different capacitors are in series with a resistor: (let's say 0.15F, 0.45F, 150M ohm)
1. both current and voltage drops exponentially
2. capacitance on capacitors remain same over time?
2...
Hi, i'm looking for an explanation to this answer of a past paper that I'm doing, it's from OCR (A level) G485, question 1 b ii)
the question on top, and answer on bottom
i don't understand why would the point experience a negative electric field strength when it's getting closer to a...
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car's battery has voltage (E) 11,5 volts and internal resistance of 0,040 ohms.
battery's charge is 20 amperehours (20 Ah)
How many ignition attempts of the car can be made, when the charge can be allowed to fall to 15 amperehours.
One attempt of at engine ignition...
Is there a general solution explicitly worked out for how a monopole and electic charge would interact? Of course the electro-static solution is that there is no interaction, but the electro-dynamic solution would not be so trivial, as moving charges/monopoles would induce magnetic/electic fields.
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I am trying to find out if there are any differences between how the Electric engine for car works vs how an Electric Engine for Drone works.
I am sure the both consist of an Ignition coil, stator and rotor. However I have not been able to find the any schematics for a drones electric...
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The electric flux density in free space produced by an oscillating electric charge placed at the origin is given by
\vec{D}=\hat{r}\frac{10^{-9}}{4\pi r^2}cos(wt-\beta r), \ \ where \ \beta=w \sqrt{\mu_0 \epsilon_0}
Find the time-average charge that produces this electric...
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What would you think of the international scientific community calling to change all negatively charged particles to positive and vice versa? Do you think there's a circumstance where we should switch or should have switched?
The only reason I brought this up is that it came up when...
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q1 = 25 μC at (0,1) and q2 = 20 μC find a.) q3 if q1 is in the negative x direction
Homework Equations
E=kq1q2/r^2
The Attempt at a Solution
I keep trying to add vectors to find q3 ie ( -(25 μC) + 20 μC) and get 5 μC the book answer says 20 μC
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Electric charge is uniformly distributed inside a nonconducting sphere of radius 0.30 m. The electric field at a point P, which is 0.50 m from the center of the sphere, is 15,000 N/C and is directed radially outward. At what distance from the center of the sphere does the...
I understand that a cathode ray will be attracted to one pole of a magnet, while being repelled away by the other. The cathode ray, being electrons and thus negatively charged, must definitely be attracted by the positive pole of the magnet, while being repelled by the negative pole of the...
1. The problem statement: In the figure four particles form a square with edge length a = 2.44 × 10-2 m. The charges are q1 = q4 = 1.06 × 10-15 C and q2 = q3 = q. What is q if the net electrostatic force on particle 1 is zero?
All variables and given/known data: The given variable are in the...
I am no mathematician, not even an expert in Gauge Theories, but I came across this article
http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6716
(published here http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0393044015002284)
when I was looking for some "condensed-matter-type-monopoles", and the author claims...
Does the property of electric charge of an elementary or composite particle exist only within the context of gauge symmetry - of the complex phase of the wave function, i.e. does gauge symmetry define electric charge?
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Imagine a universe where electrons and protons have positive and negative electric charges, respectively. Could an atom consisting of one electron and one proton exist in this universe?
Homework Statement
Consider the figure below, we need to find the charge on Q_0, both charges Q are negative. It is given that the net charge on Q_A is zero.
The figure of the problem is attached.
The Attempt at a Solution
I understand how to get the solution except for one part. I'm just...
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A large electroscope is made with "leaves" that are 78-cm-long wires with tiny 24-g spheres at the ends. When charged, nearly all the charge resides on the ends of the spheres. (See diagram attached)
If the wires each make a 26° angle with the vertical, what total charge Q...
Why does Wikipedia's page on electrical charge have a picture of a positivity charged object with arrows going to a negatively charged object? Doesn’t electrons flow from a negatively charged object to a positively charged object? Or is the picture just showing conventional current?
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It's my understanding that matter holds charge on Earth from the insulation of the atmosphere, since the atmosphere is a bad conductor and essentially blocks current due to the gaseous molecules' atomic structure and their covalent bonds. Does this mean it's impossible for matter to hold charge...
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In a certain organic molecule, the nuclei of 2 carbon atoms are separated by a distance of .20nm, What is the magnitude of the electric repulsion between them?
Now, I know the distance between them, but it has to be converted into meters:
.20nm = .20 X 10 ^-9m
And...
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What is the magnitude of the electric field due to a 6.0 x 10-9 C charge at a point located 0.025m from the charge? The charge and the point in question are located underwater (κ(water) = 80).
Homework Equations
I know that E = magnitude of electric field = kq/r2, where k =...
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A charged particle is moved from a great distance to a distance d from a point charge. At distance d, the electric field has a strength E and a potential V. Which of the following represents the work done per unit charge q?
Homework Equations
F = Eq; V = Ed, E = kq/r^2; U...
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A particle with charge q experiences a force F when placed a distance d from a point charge. At a distance d, the electric field has a strength E and a potential V. Which of the following represents the potential energy of the charge?
(A) Fd
(B) Eqd
(C) Vq
(D) Ed
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As we know, If you put charge on conductor then all the charge reside on the surface of the conductor and charge inside the conductor is zero and electric field is also zero.
Earth is also a good conductor. So the charge resides on the Earth surface?
Is there no charge inside the earth?
And...
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Here is the problem I am stuck on. I have checked my process multiple times, but have come up with the same wrong result. I would like to find out where by error of thinking lies.
"An infinitely long line charge of uniform linear charge density λ = -1.30 µC/m lies parallel...
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known
my book says inside of a uniformly distributed sphere is zero and it also says it is not it is increasing. I didnt understand any single thing it is like kidding me?
Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution
When two objects say glass, fur, plastic, ebonite rod etc are rubbed with each other then why is it that glass rod, wool, fur gain positive charge while ebonite rod, plastic rod gain negative charge? I know that it's because of transfer of electrons...but why does the transfer of electrons...
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An electric field does 40 J of work on a charge moving from point A to point B in a straight line at a distance, d. If the charge moves through a different path from point C to point D at a distance of 2d, what is the work done on the charge?
Homework Equations
W=Fd
The...
Earth has a charge of -1.6×10^-19C or about 7 moles of excess electrons on it's surface. This is compensated by an equal deficiency of electrons in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
Earth is also an infinite source and sink of current.
Now, when current flows into it, that means it loses...
Although it was drummed into me that electrical neutrality is preserved, I am perplexed by the phenomenon of radioactive decay. How is electrical neutrality maintained when electrons (beta particles) and proton-neutron sets (alpha particles) are being spit out by some elements. These particles...
According to page 61 'Einstein' by Andrew Robinson an electric charge at rest produces no magnetic field.
But: For an observer moving East with uniform motion the charge will appear to be moving West uniformly and B, using a sensitive compass, will detect a magnetic field around the 'moving'...
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Three charges, Q1, Q2 and Q3 are located on a straight line. The charge Q3 is located 0.169 m to the right of Q2. The charges Q1 = 1.56 μC and Q2 = -3.03 μC are fixed at their positions, distance 0.268 m apart, and the charge Q3 = 3.18 μC could be moved along the line. For...
What is the electric charge of Higgs particle?Then if it is charge particle why must we give that particle the charge?
In GWS model we introduce a scalar field in the spinor representation of SU(2):(H^+,H^0) .Then why must we choose positive charge for H^+?
Now,I think that Q=T^3+Y/2,and we...
Is there any significance to the fact that:
The electromagnetic and strong interactions have gauge bosons with no electric charge that are massless; and
The weak interaction has two massive gauge bosons which do have electric charge.
If there is a significance to this 'observation' then where...
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I've got a question which I can't google, I' haven't found anything about this. My dog simply shock me. Yes, I know static electricity and stuff but I wonder why this happens only when he is excited about something? For example I tell him that we're going for a walk and when I touch him he...
I was reading my physics books. And then a question came across my mind.
Now here the the definition of coulomb. Electric charge measured in units of coulombs. It takes about 6*10^18 electrons.
So the question is did the electric charge only consists of electrons.
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I am a physics tutor. I want to show the relationship between electric charges and forces and gravitational forces. I am relating an example as follows.
If we have a hollow metal sphere the size of the Earth with a charge of 1.63E15 C and a piece of tinfoil the surface with...
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I'm currently applying to graduate schools and I know that I am interested in theoretical particle physics and condensed matter theory. In electricity and magnetism we were told that charge is an axiom and it's not...
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An oil drop is charged negatively. How much charge is on the drop if the Electric Field is 6,400 N/C at a distance of 1.2 m?
Homework Equations
E=k q/r^2
I don't know if I should be using that equation for this one.
The Attempt at a Solution
I tried to do E/(k x r^2) = q...
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My question is: If we have a parallel plate capacitor with 2 parallel dielectrics both taking A/2 of the complete surface, is the total electric charge equal to sum of the electrical charges in the first dielectric and the second dielectric, i.e is qtotal=q1+q2=σ1*A/2+σ2*A/2...
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I never quite understood the principles of earthing, but I think that the general idea is that if you have an object with excess charge (whether positive or negative), then connecting it to the Earth with a conductor will mean that either the excess electrons flow to the...
If I am not wrong, the Michio says that an electron (not the parts of an electron) can be found in many places at the same time. Is that right?
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How do you calculate compute the the magnitude of the total force of three charges and also the angle it makes with the x-axis? Knowing the magnitude and also the 2d co ordinates of the charges.
I have deliberately not given any specific values because this is not homework its a question from...
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In this diagram, the net force on the 1.0 mC charge is zero. What is the sign and magnitude of the unknown charge q? Please see attached photo.
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F = KQ1Q2/r^2[/B]The Attempt at a Solution
I have approached this by first determining the force...
Since schooldays, we have been learning that electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field. But what's actually a charge, energy or force or is it something else??
I drew a force diagram of one charge with gravity downward, electric force to the right, and tension at 20 degrees left of +y. I summed the forces in the x and y directions:
Fy = Tsin20° - mg = 0
T = 0.1434 N
Fx = kq^2 / r^2 - Tcos20° = 0
q = 6.29 x 10^-12 C
The correct answer is...