EXERCISE SESSION 8: GAUSS’S LAW

BIOFÍSICA II
BIOQUÍMICA - BIOTECNOLOGÍA
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS
II PERÍODO ACADÉMICO 2023

(1) An electric field with a magnitude of 3.50 kN/C is applied along the x axis.
Calculate the electric flux through a rectangular plane 0.35 m wide and 0.7
m long assuming that
(a) the plane is parallel to the yz plane;
(b) the plane is parallel to the xy plane;
(c) the plane contains the y axis, and its normal makes an angle of 40o with
the x axis.

(2) A vertical electric field of magnitude 2.00 x 104 N/C exists above the Earth’s
surface on a 756
day when • Gauss’s Law
C HAPTE Ra24thunderstorm is brewing. A car with a rectangular
size of 6 m by 3 m is traveling along a roadway sloping downward at 10o .
Determine the electric flux through
the net electric thethe
flux through bottom
hull of of
thethe car.
submarine.
(b) Is the number of electric field lines leaving the
(3) The electric submarine
field greateron
everywhere than,
theequal to, or less
surface of athan thespherical
thin number shell of radius Q
entering it? δ 0
0.75 m is measured to be 890 N/C and points radially toward the center of
10. The electric field everywhere on the surface of a thin
the sphere. R
spherical shell of radius 0.750 m is measured to be
(a) What is the 890net
N/Ccharge within
and points the toward
radially sphere’sthesurface?
center of the
(b) What can sphere. (a) Whatabout
you conclude is the net
the charge
naturewithin
and the sphere’s
distribution of the charge
surface? (b) What can you conclude about the nature and
inside the spherical shell?.
distribution of the charge inside the spherical shell?
11. Four closed surfaces, S 1 through S 4, together with the Figure P24.15
(4) Four closed surfaces, S12Qthrough
charges ! S4,are
, Q , and !Q together
sketched with theP24.11.
in Figure charges -2Q , Q and
-Q are sketched(The colored lines
in Figure are the
1. (The intersections
colored linesofarethethe
surfaces
intersections of the
with the page.) Find the electric flux through each 16. In the air over a particular region at an
surfaces with the page.) Find the electric flux through each surface. above the ground the electric field is 1
surface.
downward. At 600 m above the ground t
100 N/C downward. What is the averag
S1 density in the layer of air between these
it positive or negative?
–2Q
S4 S3 17. A point charge Q # 5.00 "C is located a
cube of edge L # 0.100 m. In addition, s
+Q
point charges having q # ! 1.00 "C are
metrically around Q as shown in Figure P
–Q
the electric flux through one face of the c

S2
Figure P24.11
Figure 1
L

12. (a) A point charge q is located a distance d from an infi-

nite plane. Determine the electric flux through the q
plane due to the point1 charge. (b) What If? A point q q
charge q is located a very small distance from the center
q Q q
of a very large square on the line perpendicular to
L
the square and going through its center. Determine the
approximate electric flux through the square due to the q
point charge. (c) Explain why the answers to parts