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Solution

Solution

0

0

1 2

012 2 2

15

0

2

0

0

0 20

0 0

0 20

0 09

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q

r

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r

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e/ e/

r

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r

e/ e/

r

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r x

dV�ε

dq

x

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x �ε

bxdx

x

b .

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=1

4

=1

4

= 8 85 10

+2 33

1 32 10

=1

4

(2 3) (2 3)+

(2 3) ( 3)+

(2 3) ( 3)= 0

== 0 = 20 = 20

=

=1

4

=1

4=

1

4=

(0 20)

4

=(20 10 ) (0 20)

4 (8 85 10 )=

1

8 8510 = 36

Prof. R.A. SerotaQuiz 3 Name

Useful formulae and constants:

Potential of a point charge

Potential energy of a pair of point charges

C N m

1. In the quark model of fundamental particles, a proton is composed of three quarks:two �up� quarks, each having charge , and one �down� quark, having charge

. Suppose that the thee quarks are equidistant from one another. Take thedistance to be m and calculate the total potential energy of the three-quark system.

The total consists of all pair-wise terms:

2. A nonuniform linear charge distribution given by , where is a constant, islocated along an axis from to m. If nC/m , what is the electricpotential (relative to potential of zero at in�nity) at the origin?

Here

and

V