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04.3 Template For Prelab On Electricity II

The document is a pre-lab assignment for a physics course focusing on capacitors and electrostatics. It includes questions about the behavior of charges on capacitor plates and the flow of electricity at specific points. Students are required to provide explanations based on their understanding of electrostatics without prior knowledge of capacitors.

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04.3 Template For Prelab On Electricity II

The document is a pre-lab assignment for a physics course focusing on capacitors and electrostatics. It includes questions about the behavior of charges on capacitor plates and the flow of electricity at specific points. Students are required to provide explanations based on their understanding of electrostatics without prior knowledge of capacitors.

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Electricity II

UTD physics - Fall 2023

PRE-LAB

NAME:___________________________ Course & Section: __________________

These questions can be answered without any prior knowledge of capacitors. All you have
to know is how a simple capacitor is constructed (from the introduction to this lab) and
you’ll have to recall the electrostatics experiments.

1. An electrophorus is charged (as in electrostatics II). It briefly touches one terminal of a capacitor so that
a positive charge, +Q, is put on the plate of the capacitor that is connected to the terminal. After the
electrophorus is removed, we have;

+Q

Will any changes take place at other plate (on the right of the diagram)? If so, draw the charge on
the following diagram and explain why it appears. Your explanation must include reasons for the
sign of any charge that appears and it must say where these electrostatic charges come from. If
nothing happens to the other plate then explain why not.

+Q

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Electricity II
UTD physics - Fall 2023

2. What can you infer about the flow at each of the four compass positions? What is happening to the flow
at points P and Q?

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