Electric Potential Energy and Charges Quiz
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How can the voltage of a Van de Graaff generator be increased?

  • By decreasing the radius of the sphere
  • By keeping the entire system in a vacuum
  • By decreasing the pressure of the gas inside the container
  • By increasing the pressure of the gas inside the container (correct)
  • What does electric potential represent?

  • The amount of charge present in a system
  • The strength of the electric field at a point
  • The energy required to charge an object
  • The ratio of electrical potential energy per charge (correct)
  • Where is the electric field strength greater around a group of charged particles?

  • Where field lines are closer together (correct)
  • At points with lower potential energy
  • At points with higher potential energy
  • Where field lines are further apart
  • How do electrons on the surface of a conductor arrange themselves?

    <p>Tending toward a state of minimum energy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What factors influence the potential energy of a compressed spring and a charged object?

    <p>On their locations in their fields and the work done on them</p> Signup and view all the answers

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