College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics

Physics Program
General Physics for Engineering II
PHYS 193
Summer 2015
13th July 2015

EXAM 1
Instructors: Dr. A. Shalaby

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Student Name:
Student ID:
Section number:
Please read the following instructions carefully before you start answering

1. Make sure that you have 8 pages including two parts, A and B. Part A consists of 9 multiple choice

questions, and part B consists of 3 problems.

2. Calculators are permitted but no electronic dictionaries or mobile phones.
3. All your work must be done on your exam paper; no loose papers are allowed.
4. This is a timed exam (120 min). Do not spend too much time on any particular question.

Useful Formulae
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Useful Constants

ke = 9.0 109 N.m2/C2

0 = 8.85 10-12 C2/N.m2
g = 9.8 m/s2
e = 1.60 10-19 C
me = 9.1 10-31 kg

mp = 1.67 10-27 kg

Best Wishes

Part A. Please choose the one alternative that best completes the statements or
answers the questions, circle your choice using pen and justify your choice.

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Make sure that only ONE of the alternatives is chosen for each question. Two answers to one question will
result in loss of the mark of that question.

1. When five equal positive charges are uniformly spaced along the x-axis, the force on the next to
last charge on the right is directed
A) to the right. B) to the left. C) zero. D) possibly in the negative y-direction. E) possibly
in the positive y-direction.

Justification:

2. A repelling force must occur between two charged objects under which conditions?
A.
B.
C.
D.

charges are of unlike signs

charges are of equal magnitude
charges are of like signs
charges are of unequal magnitude
Justification:

3. An initially uncharged hollow metallic sphere with radius of 5 cm has a small object with a charge
of +10 C carefully placed at the center of the sphere through a hole in the latters surface. With
the charge in place, what charge is now present on the outside surface of the sphere?
A. zero
B. 10 C
C. +4 000 C
Justification:
D. +10 C

4. Under electrostatic conditions, the electric field just outside the surface of any charged conductor
A. can have nonzero components perpendicular to and parallel to the surface of the
conductor.
B. is always perpendicular to the surface of the conductor.
C. is always zero because the electric field is zero inside conductors.
D. is always parallel to the surface.
E. is perpendicular to the surface of the conductor only if it is a sphere, a cylinder, or a flat
sheet.
Justification:

5. Outside a spherically symmetric charge distribution of net charge Q, Gauss's law can be used to
show that the electric field at a given distance
A. must be greater than zero.
B. must be directed inward.
C. acts like it originated in a point charge Q at the center of the distribution.
D. must be directed outward.
E. must be zero.

Justification:

6. A closed surface S and three charges -2Q, Q, and Q are shown in the figure below. The number of
electric field lines entering the surface is
A. equal to the number of lines leaving it
B. greater than the number of lines leaving it
C. less than the number of lines leaving it

D. zero

Justification:

7. If the potential is given by V = xy - 3 z-2, then the electric field has an x-component of
A.
B.
C.
D.

x + y - 6 z-3.
y
x
X+y

Justification:

8. If the distance between two negative point charges is increased by a factor of three, the resultant
potential energy is what factor times the initial potential energy?
A. 3.0
B. 1/3
C. 9.0
D. 1/9
9. Three point charges of -2.00 C, +4.00 C, and +6.00 C are placed along the x-axis as shown in
the figure. What is the electrical potential at point P (relative to infinity) due to these charges? (k =
1/40 = 8.99 109 N m2/C2)
A) 307 kV
B) +154 kV C) -154 kV D) 0 kV
E) -307 kV

Justification:

Part B. Please solve the following problems using pen and showing all the steps
of your work in a clear tidy way.

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1. Three point charges are located at the corners of an equilateral triangle as in the below Figure.
Calculate the net electric force on the 2.00-C charge.

2. A very long uniform line of charge has charge per unit length 4.80 C/m and lies along the x-axis.
A second long uniform line of charge has charge per unit length -2.40 C/m and is parallel to the
x-axis at y = 0.400 m. What is the net electric field (magnitude and direction) at the following
points on the y-axis: (a) y=0.200 m and (b) y=0.600 m?

3. A flat ring of inner radius R1 and outer radius R2, carries a uniform surface charge density .
Determine the electric potential at points along the axis (the x axis).