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ANALYSIS
1. As you move away from the positive terminal, what happens to the voltage
reading? What does this mean?
Electric potential energy has a dependency upon the charge of the object experiencing the electric field;
electric potential is purely location dependent. Knowing that a positive test charge would be at a lower
electric potential when held further away and the voltage is the difference in potential energy between two
points. So as the distance increases, potential decreases then the difference in potential or voltage would
increase.
CONCLUSION
1. What is the meaning of potential difference between two points in an electric
field?
2. In an electric field, an electric charge is released from rest. Describe the
motion of this charge.
3. Describe the relationship between equipotential lines and electric field.
Electric field is generated by the presence of electrically charged particles or
electrostatic force. While equipotential lines are defined as where every point
has equal amount of electric potential. We must also remember that
equipotential lines are always perpendicular to its electric field.
4. Is it possible for two equipotential lines to intersect? Defend your answer.
It is not possible for the equipotential lines to intersect each other, since they all follow the law of
conservation of charge in which they must trade their charge to attain a new one.
RESEARCH/APPLICATIONS
1. Electric Motors
Electric field, an electric property associated with each point in space when
charge is present in any form. The magnitude and direction of the electric field are
expressed by the value of E, called electric field strength or electric field intensity or
simply the electric field. Knowledge of the value of the electric field at a point,
without any specific knowledge of what produced the field, is all that is needed to
determine what will happen to electric charges close to that particular point. In the
discussion of electric fields one can easily grasp its importance in our modern life
from the compass used by early travellers to the technology used in our VCRs. One
example of which is electric motors,
such
as
from
batteries,
motor
vehicles
or
rectifiers,
or
by
alternating sources, such as from the power grid, inverters or generators. Small
motors may be found in electric watches. General-purpose motors with highly
standardized dimensions and characteristics provide convenient mechanical power
for industrial use. The largest of electric motors are used for ship propulsion,
pipeline compression and pumped-storage applications with ratings reaching 100
megawatts. Electric motors may be classified by electric power source type, internal
construction, application, type of motion output, and so on.
REFERENCES
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/182416/electriccharge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor