Section 14.

Electric field

• Electric field line

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Electric field

What causes like charges to

- +
repel and unlike charges +
to attract? -
+
Charged objects exert -
- +
electrostatic force
- +
(attractive / repulsive) -
+
on nearby objects -
+
- +
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Electric field

charged objects sets up an electric field around it

Electric field patterns —

shows E-field due to
charged object

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Electric field

E.H.T. power supply

Expt 14A
Electric field

Electric field apparatus

→semolina lines up
− electrode + electrode
→electric field pattern

point semolina castor oil

electrode
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Electric field
Electric field patterns formed by
electrodes of different shapes

− + − +

(a) (b)
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Electric field

− + +
−

(c) +
(d) −

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(e)
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Electric field line

E-field pattern represented by

⇒ electric field lines
shows the
directions o
f forces
experienced
by a
positive tes
t charge
(X) in E-fiel
d
r f ie l d li n e s
close
→ stronger
force
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Electric field line

directed
from
+ve char
ge to
−ve char
ge

+ –

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Electric field line

Do not
Do not have cross one
branches another

+ –
×
×
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Class Practice 4:
4 Refer to Fig. 14.14, sketch the
electric field lines between the electrodes in the
electric field apparatus as shown.
(a) (b)

(c) (d)

Ans
wer
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Thinking 6

Name one similarity between an electric

field and a gravitational field.
Ans
wer
Both exert a force on an object.

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