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A Level Physics Test

The document is a Grade 12 A Level educational resource focusing on electrical fields, specifically involving calculations related to two charged objects X and Y. It includes problems on acceleration, orbital time, torque in an electric field, and comparisons with a gold nucleus and an alpha particle. The document provides specific values for mass, charge, and distance to facilitate these calculations.

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A Level Physics Test

The document is a Grade 12 A Level educational resource focusing on electrical fields, specifically involving calculations related to two charged objects X and Y. It includes problems on acceleration, orbital time, torque in an electric field, and comparisons with a gold nucleus and an alpha particle. The document provides specific values for mass, charge, and distance to facilitate these calculations.

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THE KNOWLEDGE QUEST

Topic: ELECTRICAL FIELDS


Grade: 12 A LEVEL

Two charged objects X and Y are made to circle a point O. X and Y are at a distance, d =
1.8 × 10−8 m and they have equal masses, where m = 1.7 × 10−9 kg as shown in Fig. 1.1.
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The objects carry an equal but opposite charge, where the magnitude q = 3.2 × 10−19 C.

Fig. 1.1

Calculate the acceleration of X and Y.

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(b) Calculate the time required for the particles in part a) to make one complete orbit.

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(c) A torque is experienced by particles X and Y from part a) when placed in an electric field
of strength 6.5 V m−1. The electric field acts perpendicular to the line between X and Y.

Calculate the magnitude and explain the presence of the instantaneous torque when the particles
are just starting to move in the electric field.

197Au of radius 7.0 fm,


(d) The particles X and Y in part a) are replaced with a gold nucleus
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and an alpha particle of radius 1.7 fm. They are circling point O with the same separation
d and are no longer in an electric field.

Show that the separation of the gold nucleus and the alpha particle is around 90 x 10−16 larger than
the separation of particles X and Y.

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