andie Posted January 31, 2007 Posted January 31, 2007 I was doing an experiment with some parallel plates and was wondering how much work is done by the uniform electric field by moving an electron from the negative plate to the positive plate of two parallel plates. How would you solve this???
insane_alien Posted January 31, 2007 Posted January 31, 2007 Work = Force x Distance. always go back to basics. I assume you know how to work out the force on the electron and you know the distance between the plates.
andie Posted January 31, 2007 Author Posted January 31, 2007 force = mass that acceleration therefore it would be the mass of an electron multiplied by gravity and the distance is given Is that about right ????
swansont Posted January 31, 2007 Posted January 31, 2007 Gravity is most likely negligible compared to the electrostatic force. F = qE for a charge q in a field E (recall that E is defined as F/q)
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