PHYS:1612 Week 1 Discussion

Sam Foreman
e-mail: samuel-foreman@uiowa.edu

08/29/2017
TRIVIA QUIZ!!!
1. The year that the first planet was discovered orbiting a star
outside our solar system was:
a) 1790
b) 1948
c) 1965
d) 1995
2. Which team won the first Super Bowl in 1967?
a) Kansas City Chiefs
b) Dallas Cowboys
c) New York Jets
d) Green Bay Packers
3. Which of the following countries do the Alps not pass
through?
a) Slovenia
b) Italy
c) Austria
d) Hungary
TRIVIA QUIZ!!!
1. The year that the first planet was discovered orbiting a star
outside our solar system was:
a) 1790
b) 1948
c) 1965
d) 1995
2. Which team won the first Super Bowl in 1967?
a) Kansas City Chiefs
b) Dallas Cowboys
c) New York Jets
d) Green Bay Packers
3. Which of the following countries do the Alps not pass
through?
a) Slovenia
b) Italy
c) Austria
d) Hungary
TRIVIA QUIZ!!!
1. The year that the first planet was discovered orbiting a star
outside our solar system was:
a) 1790
b) 1948
c) 1965
d) 1995
2. Which team won the first Super Bowl in 1967?
a) Kansas City Chiefs
b) Dallas Cowboys
c) New York Jets
d) Green Bay Packers
3. Which of the following countries do the Alps not pass
through?
a) Slovenia
b) Italy
c) Austria
d) Hungary
TRIVIA QUIZ!!!
1. The year that the first planet was discovered orbiting a star
outside our solar system was:
a) 1790
b) 1948
c) 1965
d) 1995
2. Which team won the first Super Bowl in 1967?
a) Kansas City Chiefs
b) Dallas Cowboys
c) New York Jets
d) Green Bay Packers
3. Which of the following countries do the Alps not pass
through?
a) Slovenia
b) Italy
c) Austria
d) Hungary
Useful Relations:

1. Coulomb’s Law:
1 |q1 ||q2 |
F = (1)
4πε0 r 2
2. Electric Field:
F~
E~ = (2)
q0
3. Field due to a point charge:
1 q
E~ = rˆ (3)
4πε0 r 2
4. Force on a point charge in an Electric Field:

F~ = q E~ (4)
Problem 1

Two equally charged particles are held a distance d apart and then
released from rest. The initial acceleration of the first particle is
observed to be a1 and that of the second to be a2 . If the mass of
the first particle is m1, what are
1. The mass of the second particle, m2 ?
2. The magnitude of the charge of each particle?
Problem 2

The magnitude of the electrostatic force between to identical ions

that are separated by a distance of d is F .
1. What is the charge of each ion?
2. How many electrons are “missing” from each ion (thus giving
the ion its charge imbalance)?
Problem 3

Two particles are attached to an x axis: particle 1 of charge +q at

x = x1 and partlce 2 of charge −q at x = x2 . Midway between the
particles, what is their net electric field in unit-vector notation?
Problem 4
The figure below shows two charged particles on an x−axis. What
are the
1. magnitude and
2. direction (relative to +x) of the net electric field produced at
point P?