Practice - POTENTIAL ENERGY OF A SYSTEM OF CHARGES
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Practice Questions
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What is potential energy in the context of charged systems?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens to energy when charges are moved closer.
Define path independence in electrostatics.
💡 Hint: Reflect on conservative forces.
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What is the work done to move a charge from point R to point P in a conservative field?
💡 Hint: Reflect on the characteristics of conservative forces.
True or False: The absolute value of potential energy matters.
💡 Hint: Consider what is physically meaningful in energy calculations.
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Three point charges are located at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side length 1 m, with charges of +3uC, -3uC, and +5uC. Calculate the total potential energy of the system.
💡 Hint: Use geometry to find distances and apply the potentials accordingly.
Derive an expression for the potential energy of a uniformly charged sphere of radius R and total charge Q.
💡 Hint: Consider the symmetry and how to represent the contributions mathematically.
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