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The University of British Columbia | Okanagan Campus | School of Engineering

APSC 178 Electricity, Magnetism, and Waves

Problem Set 2
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1. A point charge is placed at each corner of a square with side length a. The charges all have the same
magnitude q. Two of the charges are positive and two are negative, as shown in the figure below.
a. Sketch the electric field lines representing the electric field produced by this charge distribution.
b. What is the direction of the net electric field at the centre of the square due to the four charges, and
what is its magnitude (expressed in terms of q and a, and any necessary physical/universal constants)?

2. Consider the electric field formed from a point charge Q = 5 nC at the origin. A dipole is placed in this

electric field at the Cartesian coordinate (1 m, 1 m), and its dipole moment is p = 1 yˆ (C·m) .

a. what is the potential energy of the dipole?


b. In what direction will the dipole begin to rotate?

3. Consider the electric dipole that we studied in our lecture on the last pages of Module 1. It had a
charge +q at z = +d/2 above the origin and a charge –q at z = –d/2 below the origin. We then solved for
the electric field at a height of z up along the axis of the dipole, i.e., along the z-axis.
a. Solve for the electric field at a distance x to the right of the origin, i.e., along the x-axis. Draw the new
system and be sure to solve for the magnitude and direction of the new electric field!
b. What does this expression for the electric field become for very large x values?

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