(8 point charges on a cube) A cube of edge a carries a point charge q at each corner. (a) Show that the magnitude of the resultant force on any one of the charges is F = 3.29kq2/a2. (b) What is the direction of F? relative to the cube edges?
a. the magnitude of thge resultant force at one corner can be obtained by applying parallelogram law of vectors. so the resultant force
Fr2 = F21 + F22 + 2 F1x F2 Cos = 2F2 ( 1 + Cos )
however the value of the individual force are same and equal to F1 = F2= 1/ 40 kq2 / a2
since = 90/2 = 450
so Fr= 2x (9x10x kq2/a2 ) ( 1 + Cos450) = 3.29kq2/a2
b. the direction is 45 degree away from the diagonal of the cube
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