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What is the y component of the electric field?

What is the y component of the electric field?

The y component of the electric field of an electromagnetic wave travelling in the +x direction through vacuum obeys the equation Ey = (375 N/C) cos [kx − (2.20 × 10 14 rad/s)t].

How do you find the electric field in origin?

In the formula E = kQ/r2, Q is the charge that is producing the electric field. Each of the two charges that are given in the problem is producing electric field at the origin.

How do you find the magnitude of an electric field?

the magnitude of the electric field (E) produced by a point charge with a charge of magnitude Q, at a point a distance r away from the point charge, is given by the equation E = kQ/r2, where k is a constant with a value of 8.99 x 109 N m2/C2.

How to calculate the X and y components of an electric field?

There is a simple strategy that gives us the x- and y-components of electric fields directly rather than having to go through first calculating the magnitude of the electric field: 1. First you calculates the x- and y-components of the distance from the source to the target (rx and ry), and the magnitude of that distance.

How to find the net electric field at point P?

The net electric field at point P is the vector sum of electric fields E1 and E2, where: So, in order to find the net electric field at point P, we will have to analyze the electric field produced by each charge and how they interact (cancel or add together).

Which is the vector of the net electric field?

I will only draw in a couple of the vectors—those that are relevant to the problem—but as in the above picture, the field lines point out (or in) in every direction from the charge. The electric field vector originating from Q1 which points toward P has only a perpendicular component, so we will not have to worry about breaking this one up.

How to find the net electric field in 2D?

They’re lying in this two-dimensional plane, and we wanna find the net electric field. So what we have to do in these 2D electric field problems is break up the electric fields into their components. In other words, the field created by this positive charge is gonna have a horizontal component, and that’s gonna point to the right.