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spaced about 1 cm apart (only two plates are shown in Figure 15.32). Air flows across the
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oppositely charged plates and are thus removed from the moving gas.
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Suppose the average particle moving with air up a chimney has a mass of 4.0 x 10-6 kg and
charge of -6.0 x 10-8 C. The particles move with the air at speed 6.0 m/s and average distance of
3.0 cm from a vertical plate. The plate is 0.60 m tall. Which answer below is closest to the
minimum horizontal electric field that the plate must have so that the particles will be collected
before moving past the top of the plate?

(a) 100 N/C (b) 200 N/C (c) 400 N/C (d) 1000 N/C (e) 4000 N/C

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Electrostatic Precipitators work by creating an electrostatic charge which attaches to dust

particles within the gas.

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The time for horizontal travel is

h=Plancks constant and v= velocity

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Using

we find the acceleration to be

Since

Where m= mass of the particle and a = acceleration

The magnitude of the electric field to be

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So the final answer is

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