The electric field strength is 50,000N/Cinside a parallel-plate capacitor with a 2.0mm spacing. A proton is released from rest at the positive plate. What is the proton’s speed when it reaches the negative plate?

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The proton's final velocity at negative plate isvf1.38×105ms

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Step :1  Angular momentum

Given information:

Electric field strength is 50,000N/C.

Spacing is 2.0mm.

Find:

The objective is to find proton's speed reaches the negative plate.

The particle travels along the field, more toward the capacitor's deleterious anode, in a static electric field. At the expenditure of electrostatic field, it gains angular momentum.

The variation in electromotive force can be computed using equation (28.10):

ΔUe=Ue,fUe,i=U0+qE0+U0+qEd

=qEd

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Step :2 Explanation

We can compute the proton's mobility when it approaches the negatively pole by transforming the difference in electromotive force energy into kinetic energy.

From energy conversation

(ΔK+ΔU=0)

ΔK=ΔUe

12mpvf2=qEd

vf=2qEdmp

=2×1.602×1019C×50000NC×2×103m1.673×1027kg

localid="1649456505449" vf1.38×105ms

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