Practice Problems: Gauss's Law
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1. (easy) A student measures the electric flux through a closed spherical surface of volume V to be X. She then removes the charge from inside the spherical surface and places it in a closed cylindrical surface of volume V/2. She then claims that the flux through the cylindrical surface is 2X. Explain why the student is wrong.
2. (easy) A pyramid with a 6.0 m square base has a height of 4.0 m. If it was placed in a vertical E-field (uniform magnitude of 52.0 N/C), determine the flux through one of the four sides.
3. (easy) A circular plane, with a radius of 2.2 m, is immersed in an E-Field with a magnitude of 800 N/C. The field makes an angle of 20° with the plane. What is the magnitude of the flux through the plane?
4. (easy) The net electric flux through an 3D closed surface is positive 2.2x103 Nm2/C. How much charge must be inside the surface? What is the sign on the charge?
5. (moderate) An imaginary rectangular shaped box is placed on the x-axis of a coordinate system. The left edge of the box is a distance of 0.4 m to the right of the origin. The box has a depth of 0.4 m, a width of 0.6 m, and a height of 0.4 m. A non uniform E-field (measured in N/C) passes through the box and varies along the x-axis according to the following:
E = (2.0x2 + 3.0) directed perfectly along the x-axis.
Determine the net flux through the surface.
6.(moderate) A Gaussian cube, 0.5 m along each edge, sits on the axis of a coordinate system such that three of its edges are along the postive x, y, and z axes. Determine the net electric flux through the top face of the cube if there is a uniform E-field of -0.5i + 0.3j acting in that region of space.
7. (moderate) The concept of flux can also be applied to gravitational fields. Gauss's Law for gravity is:
(1/4πG)Φg = -m
where m is the mass contained within a Gaussian surface and the gravitational flux is
Φg = ∫g·dA
g is the gravitational field through the surface. Show that this law is equivalent to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation.
Please supplement these problems with those found in your companion text.