PHY 158 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Electrometer

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Physics
• Course: PHY 158
• Professor: Whitmire Scott

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= 90 degrees i s t l o v g n d a e. For section v-1 it is expected that the density of negative charges will decrease as we move from sphere a 0 degree to 180 degree because sphere b is positively charge. The closer the point on a move toward b the denser the negative charges will become. The data collected verifies my assumption because the charge becomes more and more positive as it moves farther from sphere b on position a. After conducting the experiment, we do get the same result, but with larger magnitudes. It was expected we got a larger (negative) number because sphere a is negatively charged for this portion of the experiment, but it was natural in section 1. This will cause it to be denser in this section. For v-3 sphere a is positively charged, i expected that the positively charge positively charged b would repeal the positive charges on a.