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Two particles, each having a mass of 3.0 g and having equal but opposite charges of magnitude 5.0 nC, are released simultaneously from rest when the two are 5.0 cm apart. What is the speed of either particle at the instant when the two are separated by 2.0 cm?
 a. 2.1 m/s
  b. 1.5 m/s
  c. 1.8 m/s
  d. 2.4 m/s
  e. 3.2 m/s

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[Ques. 2] Two identical particles, each with a mass of 2.0 g and a charge of 25 nC, are released simultaneously from rest when the two are 4.0 cm apart. What is the speed of either particle at the instant when the two are separated by 10 cm?
 a. 7.3 m/s
  b. 9.8 m/s
  c. 9.2 m/s
  d. 6.5 m/s
  e. 4.6 m/s

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[Ques. 3] A 60-C charge is held fixed at the origin and a 20-C charge is held fixed on the x axis at a point x = 1.0 m. If a 10-C charge is released from rest at a point x = 40 cm, what is its kinetic energy the instant it passes the point x = 70 cm?
 a. 9.8 J
  b. 7.8 J
  c. 8.8 J
  d. 6.9 J
  e. 2.8 J

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[Ques. 4] A particle (charge = 5.0 C) is released from rest at a point x = 10 cm. If a 5.0-C charge is held fixed at the origin, what is the kinetic energy of the particle after it has moved 90 cm?
 a. 1.6 J
  b. 2.0 J
  c. 2.4 J
  d. 1.2 J
  e. 1.8 J

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[Ques. 5] A particle (charge 7.5 C) is released from rest at a point on the x axis, x = 10 cm. It begins to move due to the presence of a 2.0-C charge which remains fixed at the origin. What is the kinetic energy of the particle at the instant it passes the point x = 1.0 m?
 a. 3.0 J
  b. 1.8 J
  c. 2.4 J
  d. 1.2 J
  e. 1.4 J

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[Ques. 6] A particle (charge = 40 C) moves directly toward a second particle (charge = 80 C) which is held in a fixed position. At an instant when the distance between the two particles is 2.0 m, the kinetic energy of the moving particle is 16 J. Determine the distance separating the two particles when the moving particle is momentarily stopped.
 a. 0.75 m
  b. 0.84 m
  c. 0.95 m
  d. 0.68 m
  e. 0.56 m

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[Ques. 7] Particle A (mass = m, charge = Q) and B (mass = m, charge = 5 Q) are released from rest with the distance between them equal to 1.0 m. If Q = 12 C, what is the kinetic energy of particle B at the instant when the particles are 3.0 m apart?
 a. 8.6 J
  b. 3.8 J
  c. 6.0 J
  d. 2.2 J
  e. 4.3 J

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[Ques. 8] A particle (charge = Q) is kept in a fixed position at point P, and a second particle (charge = q) is released from rest when it is a distance R from P. If Q = +2.0 mC, q = 1.5 mC, and R = 30 cm, what is the kinetic energy of the moving particle after it has moved a distance of 10 cm?
 a. 60 kJ
  b. 45 kJ
  c. 75 kJ
  d. 90 kJ
  e. 230 kJ

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[Ques. 9] Three identical point charges (+2.0 nC) are placed at the corners of an equilateral triangle with sides of 2.0-m length. If the electric potential is taken to be zero at infinity, what is the potential at the midpoint of any one of the sides of the triangle?
 a. 16 V
  b. 10 V
  c. 70 V
  d. 46 V
  e. 44 V

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[Ques. 10] Four identical point charges (+6.0 nC) are placed at the corners of a rectangle which measures 6.0 m  8.0 m. If the electric potential is taken to be zero at infinity, what is the potential at the geometric center of this rectangle?
 a. 58 V
  b. 63 V
  c. 43 V
  d. 84 V
  e. 11 V

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