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A small conducting sphere of mass 5 x 10-kilogram, attached to a string of length 0.2 meter, is
ina uniform electric field E, directed horizontally to the right as shown above. There is a
e of 5x 10 ceulomb on the sphere. The string makes an angle of 30° with the vertical.
meg=10 meters per second squared
space below, draw and label all the forces acting on the sphere.
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late the tension in the string and the magnitude of the electric field.
ring now breaks. Describe the subsequent motion of the sphere and sketch on the following
m the path of the sphere while in the electric field.
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