All the chapter’s exercises, worked step-by-step, in the order they appear in the textbook: first the guided exercises and section problems, then the end-of-chapter problems (numerical, conceptual, true/false, ranking, graphs, Fermi estimates, fantasy physics).
Exercises and problems in the text
- Worked exercise — Three charges at the vertices of a triangle
- Equilibrium on a line
- Collision between charges with friction
- Two charges released from rest
- Worked exercise — Charge on a spring, equilibrium and expansion
- Two charges in circular motion
- The two gunslingers
- Two charges thrown upwards
- Worked exercise — Charged particle as a projectile near a charged plane
End-of-chapter problems
- Force between two 1-microcoulomb charges
- True or false on charges and conductors
- Force between two spheres with the same charge
- Charge of a sphere given the force
- Resultant force on three charges
- Induction on a small metal sphere
- Fraction of electrons to transfer
- Coulomb force in the hydrogen atom
- Equilibrium of three charges on the axis
- Ranking of Coulomb forces (pairs A-D)
- The comb and the paper
- Force between +2 and -3 microcoulomb charges
- Electric field of a 5-nanocoulomb charge
- Ratio between gravitational and Coulomb force
- Water jet deflected by a rod
- Ranking of three pairs of charges
- True or false on charge and field
- Field at the centre of an equilateral triangle
- Quantisation of charge
- Electrostatic induction on a metal sphere
- Conductor in an external field
- Two equal charges and a test charge
- Ranking of Coulomb forces (identical pairs)
- Ranking of electric fields
- Force between two charged balls
- Electric field at 30 cm
- Potential of a negative charge
- Electric dipole
- Parallel-plate capacitor
- Given F, find q
- Given E, find r
- Given V, find q
- Fantasy physics: all charges positive
- Fantasy physics: constant k doubled
- Two charges on a rod
- Electric pendulum
- Lightning rod
- Faraday cage
- Reading a graph: V(r) of a point charge
- Reading a graph: field of a dipole
- Fermi estimate: force between two electrons
- Fermi estimate: capacitance of the Earth
- Challenge: equilibrium of three collinear charges