Electric Potential - Worksheet
11 Free-Response Questions
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1. How much work is required to move a -500 μC 3. A positive charge is released from rest at point A
charge across a potential difference of +300V? as shown in the figure below. As it accelerates
toward point B, (a) is the charge’s electric potential
energy increasing or decreasing? (b) What about
its kinetic energy? (c) Is the work done positive or
negative? (d) Repeat parts (a) through (c) if the
positive charge was initially moving to the left at
point B.
2. 100J of work was done by an electric field on a 4. (a) How much work is required by an electric
+5C to accelerate it from point A to point B. field to move a -50 μC charge from an electric
(a) What is the voltage across points A and B? (b) If potential of -50V to 250V? (b) If the charge
the electric potential at point A is 50V, what is the accelerates from rest, what is the final speed if it
electric potential at point B? has a mass of 0.01 grams?
5. A 300V battery is connected across two parallel 7. (a) What is the speed of a 500 eV electron? (b)
plates that are separated by a distance of 50cm. What is the speed of a 27 MeV electron?
(a) What is the magnitude of the electric field?
Calculate the electric potential at the following
distances from the negatively charged plate: (b)
10cm (c) 15cm (d) 25 cm (e) 35 cm (f) 40 cm.
(Assign an electric potential of 0V to the negatively
charged plate).
6. 500V is applied across two parallel plates 8. Calculate the electric potential generated by a
separated by a distance of 4 mm. (a) What is the +93.3 nC charge at a distance of 1m and 8m from
magnitude of the electric field? (b) What is the the charge. (b) What is the electric potential
magnitude of the electric force that will be exerted produced by a -50 μC charge at a distance of 30
on a +200 μC charge? (c) Calculate the acceleration cm?
and final speed of a 0.1-gram charge as it moves
from rest at the positively charged plate toward
the negatively charged plate.
9. Calculate the electric potential at point P using 11. Consider the electric dipole shown below
the figure shown below: consisting of a +10 μC and -10 μC charge separated
by a distance of 0.01 mm. (a) Calculate the dipole
moment of the electric dipole. (b) Calculate the
potential at points A, B, C, and D.
10. A -2 μC charge is 2 meters to the right of a
+1 μC charge. At what point along the x-axis
relative to the positive charge will the electric
potential be equal to zero?
Answers:
1. 0.15 J
2a. -20 V
2b. +30 V
3a. The electric potential energy is decreasing.
3b. The kinetic energy is increasing.
3c. The work done on the charge is positive.
3d. As the positive charge moves to the left, the electric potential energy is increasing, the kinetic energy of
the charge is decreasing, and the work done on the charge by the electric field is negative.
4a. 0.015 J
4b. 54.8 m/s
5a. 600 V/m or 600 N/C
5b. 60 V
5c. 90 V
5d. 150 V
5e. 210 V
5f. 240 V
6a. 1.25 x 105 V/m
6b. 25 N
6c. Acceleration = 2.5 x 105 m/s2, final speed = 44.7 m/s.
7a. 1.33 x 107 m/s
7b. 3.08 x 109 m/s
8a. 840 V at 1 meter and 105V at 8 meters.
8b. -1.5 x 106 V
9. +238 V
10. 0.67 m to the right of the positive charge.
11a. 1 x 10-10 C*m
11b. VA = +0.036 V, VB = +0.0707 V, VC = 0 V, VD = -0.0487 V.
