1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Sedaia [141]
3 years ago
14

To understand the nature of electric fields and how to draw field lines. Electric field lines are a tool used to visualize elect

ric fields. A field line is drawn beginning at a positive charge and ending at a negative charge. Field lines may also appear from the edge of a picture or disappear at the edge of the picture. Such lines are said to begin or end at infinity. The field lines are directed so that the electric field at any point is tangent to the field line at that point.

Physics
1 answer:
Brrunno [24]3 years ago
7 0

Explanation:

The electric field is defined as the change in the properties of space caused by the existence of a positively (+) or negatively (-) charged particle. The electric field can be represented by infinitely many lines from a particle, and those lines never intersect each other. Depending on the type of charge we can see different cases:

  • Let's say we have a <u>positive charge alone (</u>image 1)<u>.</u> The field lines are drawn from the centre of the particle outwards to infinity (in other words, they disappear from the edge of the picture). Meaning the direction of the electric field points outwards the particle.
  • For a <u>negative charge alone </u>(image 2)<u>,</u> the lines come from infinity to the centre, and point towards the particle (i.e. lines appear from the edge of the picture).

Let's see what happens if we have two charges together:

  • <u>Two positive charges</u> (image 3): Since the charges are of the same type (positive), the particles repel each other. Then the field lines will avoid each other so they do not join. The charge is positive, so lines point outwards.
  • <u>Two negative charges</u> (image 4): Again, the charges are both negative, so they repel. But they are negative, so the field points inwards.
  • <u>Negative and positive charges</u> (image 5): They are different charges, so the force between them is attractive. This causes the field lines from both to join. They go out of the positive and come into the negative particle.

Image 6:

The lines are passing through infinite points of the space. If we choose a certain point and measure the electric field, we can see to which direction the electric field points. This is the direction of the electric field vector. It does not matter which point we choose; the electric field vector touches the field line only at this point, which means it is tangent to the field line.

You might be interested in
What is the lateral surface area of a cylinder with height of 7 m and a base diameter of 4 m (to the nearest whole number)?
yuradex [85]
2×22/7×2×7
44/7×2×7
44×2
88
8 0
3 years ago
A car traveling in a straight line has a velocity of 6m/s at some instant. After 6.32s its velocity is 13.2m/s . What is the ave
NeX [460]
Average acceleration  =  (change in speed) / (time for the change) .

Average acceleration  =  (13.2 - 6) / (6.32) = 7.2 / 6.32 = about  <em>1.139... m/s²</em> .
8 0
3 years ago
If time travel to the future existed, doesn't that mean that the future has already occurred and that we are living in the past?
kodGreya [7K]

Answer:

As of right now the techology has not been invented to time travel

if we were to time travel to the future from where that person travled from would be the past and to them the people from where they came from are living in the past

Explanation:

3 0
3 years ago
Ian walks 2 km to his best friends house, then walks 0.5 km to the library. He then makes 2.5 km walk home. The entire walk took
allochka39001 [22]
1. 2+0.5+2.5= 3. 2km/hr average




2. 14-6=4seconds. 8m/s in 4s = 2m/s acceleration


3. 15m/s divided by 2.5 = 6m/s acceleration
5 0
3 years ago
PV = nRT, is the a. equation of state of an ideal gas
romanna [79]

Ideal gas law:

PV = nRT

P = pressure, V = volume, n = # of moles, R = gas constant, T = temperature

Equipartition theorem:

Each degree of freedom that a molecule has adds 0.5kT to its total internal energy where k = Boltzmann's constant and T = temperature

2nd law of thermodynamics:

A set of governing principles that restrict the direction of net heat flow (always hot to cold, heat engines are never 100% efficient, entropy always tends to increase, etc)

Clearly the answer is Choice A

3 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Use tug of war to explain balanced and unbalanced forces
    13·1 answer
  • Chemists measure energy in units of _________ because it is based on heating water. Since most chemical reactions are doing in w
    6·1 answer
  • boiling water transfers energy to an ice cube. this is an example of temperature heat heat capacity thermal energy
    9·1 answer
  • Which of the following is not an example of a physical change?
    12·1 answer
  • A Carnot engine whose low-temperature reservoir is at 19.5°C has an efficiency of 23.0%. By how much should the Celsius temperat
    8·1 answer
  • Which is not a simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) (a) Simple Pendulum (b) Projectile motion (c) None (d) Spring motion
    8·1 answer
  • When the early universe cooled enough for atoms to form, _____ began.
    10·2 answers
  • Which of the following has kinetic energy? (1 point)
    8·1 answer
  • If energy cannot be created or destroyed, where does it go?
    13·2 answers
  • How is an image from a CT scan made from 2D X-ray images?
    5·2 answers
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!