Test Yourself - Static
Electricity and Electric Fields
1.
The figure above shows the distribution of electrical charge at
the ground and in the bottom portion of a thunderstorm. Would the
electric field arrow at Point A point UPWARD or
DOWNWARD?
2.
What would produce this pattern of electric field arrows? Would a
negative charge placed somewhere in the pattern move INWARD
toward or OUTWARD away from the center of the pattern?
3.
Would a positive charge placed at POINT A (midway between two +
charges) or POINT B (midway between a + and a - charge) experience zero
force?
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questions.