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This document outlines a tutorial for PHY272, consisting of various problems related to electric fields, potentials, and charge distributions. It includes tasks such as finding charge densities, calculating potentials for charged spheres and wires, and determining work done in charge configurations. The tutorial requires students to apply concepts like Gauss' law and electric field calculations to solve the problems presented.

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Tutorial 2

This document outlines a tutorial for PHY272, consisting of various problems related to electric fields, potentials, and charge distributions. It includes tasks such as finding charge densities, calculating potentials for charged spheres and wires, and determining work done in charge configurations. The tutorial requires students to apply concepts like Gauss' law and electric field calculations to solve the problems presented.

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TUTORIAL 1.

PHY272

SUBMISSION: DURING TUTORIAL SESSION. ATTEMPT ALL PROBLEMS!

~ = kr3 r̂ in spherical coordinates [50 kr2 ].


1. (a) Find the charge density ρ for the electric E
(b) Find the total charge contained in a sphere of radius R, centered at the origin.[Solve it using Gauss’ law
and direct integration of ρ]

2. Find the potential inside and outside a uniformly charged solid sphere whose radius is R and whose total
charge is q.

3. Find the potential a distance s from an infinitely long straight wire that carries a uniform line charge λ,
find the electric for this potential, and check it using Gauss’ law.

4. Find the electric potential a distance z above one end of a straight line segment of length L that carries a
uniform line charge density.

5. Find the potential at a distance z above the center of the charge distributions in the figure below. [To verify
your answers, compute the eletric field for each distrubution and check whether it is what expected]

6. Find the electric field for the following electric potentials


(a) V = rsinθcosφ
(b) V = ρ2 sinφ
(c) V = x + y2 z

7. Three charges are situated at the corners of a square (side a).


(a) How much work does it take to bring in another charge, +q, from far away and place it in the fourth
corner?
(b) How much work does it take to assemble the whole configuration of four charges?

8. A sheet of uniform charge density σ = 100 nC/m2 occupies the x − z plane.


(a) Find the work required to move a 2.00 nC charge from P(-5, 10, 2) m to R(2, 3, 0) m.[79×10−3 J]
(b) Find the potential difference between these points.[ 40×103 V]

9. A 100 nC point charge is located at the origin at the origin


(a) Find the potential difference between point A (0, 0, -6)m, and point B (0, 2, 0) m. [300 V]
(b) How much work would be needed to move a 1 nC charge from point A to point B against the
electric field of the 100 nC point charge.[300×10−9 J]

10. For an infinite length line of charge density λ = 20 nC/m on the z-axis, find the potential difference VAB
between point B (0, 2. 0) m, and point A (0, 0, 8) m.[–250 V]

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