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The document contains a tutorial for a physics course focusing on electricity, featuring five questions related to electric forces and fields. It includes calculations for repulsive forces between charged nuclei, net forces on point charges, equilibrium of charged pendulums, placement of a third charge for zero force, and determining points of zero electric field. Each question is accompanied by its respective answer and requires application of physics principles.

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Department of Physics and Electronics

Phy121: Electricity

Tutorial 1
Question 1.
A helium nucleus has charge +2𝑒, and neon nucleus has charge +10𝑒, where e is the fundamental
charge 1.60 × 10−19 𝐶. Find the repulsive force exerted by one on the other when the nuclei are
separated by a distance of 3.0 𝑛𝑚 in space.
Ans: 𝑭 = 𝟓. 𝟏 × 𝟏𝟎−𝟏𝟎 𝑵 = 𝟎. 𝟓𝟏 𝒏𝑵
Question 2
Three point charges are placed on the x-axis as shown in Figure 1 below. Find the net force on the
−5 𝜇𝐶 due to the other two charges.

Figure 1

Ans: 𝑭 = 𝟎. 𝟔 𝑵 𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒙 𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏


Question 3
Two small metallic spheres, each of mass
𝑚 = 0.200 𝑔, are suspended as pendulums
by light strings of length L as shown in
Figure 2. The spheres are given the same
electric charge of 7.2 𝑛𝐶, and they come to
equilibrium when each string is at an angle of
𝜃 = 5.00° with the vertical. How long are the
strings?
Ans: The strings are 𝟑𝟎 𝒄𝒎 long. Figure 2
Question 4
Two charges are placed on the x-axis; +3.0 𝜇𝐶 is at point B which is the origin (0, 0) while
−5.0 𝜇𝐶 is at point C with coordinate (40 cm, 0) as shown in Figure 3. Where must a third positive
charge be placed, if the force it experiences is to be zero?

Figure 3

Ans: In your calculation, you must be able to find two values, 𝟏. 𝟒 𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 − 𝟎. 𝟏𝟕 𝒎. Use
reasoning and the laws of physics you have learnt so far to identify the correct answer
between the two values.

Question 5
In Figure 4 determine the point (other than infinity) at which the total electric field is zero. Note
that −2.5 𝜇𝐶 charge is at coordinate (0, 0) and 6.0 𝜇𝐶 charge is at coordinate (1.0 m, 0).

Figure 4

Ans: Again, use reasoning to find the correct position between two values 𝟏. 𝟖𝒎 and −𝟎. 𝟑𝟗𝒎
found in your calculations.

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