Space explorers discover an 8.7×10^17 kg asteroid that happens to have a positive charge of 4400 C. They would like to place their 3.3×10^5 kg spaceship in orbit around the asteroid. Interestingly, the solar wind has given their spaceship a charge of −1.2C. What speed must their spaceship have to achieve a 7500-km-diameter circular orbit?

A +2.0 nC charge is at the origin and a −4.0 nC charge is at x=1.0 cm.b. Would the net force be zero for an electron placed at the same position? Explain.

In a simple model of the hydrogen atom, the electron moves in a circular orbit of radius 0.053 nm around a stationary proton. How many revolutions per second does the electron make?

You have a lightweight spring whose unstretched length is 4.0 cm. First, you attach one end of the spring to the ceiling and hang a 1.0 g mass from it. This stretches the spring to a length of 5.0 cm. You then attach two small plastic beads to the opposite ends of the spring, lay the spring on a frictionless table, and give each plastic bead the same charge. This stretches the spring to a length of 4.5 cm. What is the magnitude of the charge (in nC) on each bead?

A 5.0 g ball charged to 1.5 μC is tied to a 25-cm-long string. It swings at 250 rpm in a horizontal circle around a stationary ball charged to −2.5 μC. What is the tension in the string?

What is the force F on the 8.0 nC charge in FIGURE P22.44? Give your answer as a magnitude and an angle measured cw or ccw (specify which) from the +x-axis.

FIGURE P22.52 shows three charges and the net force on charge −q. Charge Q is some multiple α of q. What is α?

You have two small, 2.0 g balls that have been given equal but opposite charges, but you don't know the magnitude of the charge. To find out, you place the balls distance apart on a slippery horizontal surface, release them, and use a motion detector to measure the initial acceleration of one of the balls toward the other. After repeating this for several different separation distances, your data are as follows:Use an appropriate graph of the data to determine the magnitude of the charge.

The identical small spheres shown in FIGURE P22.64 are charged to +100 nC and −100 nC. They hang as shown in a 100,000 N/C electric field. What is the mass of each sphere?