Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Day 10 Lab

Gauss Law

In this part of the lab we saw the charge distribution when its enclosed on a uniform surface and be able to apply Gauss Law to find the values that are needed. After earning flux the day prior the Gauss Law was another way to find the electric field or force of the object. In the lab experiment we did an activity with active physics to see how it interacts and why an conducting sphere has a charge of zero by seeing in Faraday's experiment.
This is  the board where te group wrote the answers to questions in the lab notebook pertaining the Gauss Law and learned the difference between a conducting sphere and insulting sphere or the uniform shape.

This is the Gauss Law for an infinitely long rod where it would be hard to integrate so we replace dQ with lambda to make it easier and find the force to answer the values.

In the end of the lab da we found that the electric force and Gauss Law are the same as the gravitational forces just a different force used. But saw that Earth is a non-conducting sphere and saw the affects it has with certain mass in a different situation seeing that they are related to each other.   


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