Oscillations of a Charged Arc

An arc with radius R has a uniform positive charge density λ \lambda exists as shown.The arc of mass M is initially in equilibrium due to its weight and electrostatic force of interaction between a fixed charge at its centre [mass m charge Q] The arc is then displaced from the mean position a very small distance as compared to the radius R, along the symmetrical axis of the arc.It undergoes Simple harmonic motion under certain approximations. Consider gravity constant everywhere .Find the M a r c c o s ( 1 3 ) 2 + 2 a r c c o s ( 1 3 ) 2 + 1 2 M\frac{\frac{arccos(\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}})}{2}+\sqrt{2}}{\frac{arccos(\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}})}{2}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}} upto two decimal in SI units of the arc given that the time period of oscillations has a minimum value of 2 π 2\pi seconds.Given that Q = λ R 2 = ( 2 π ε ) Q=\frac{\lambda}{R^{2}}=\sqrt{(2\pi\varepsilon)} Consider all forces of gravitation constant throughout considering only values in SI and not the units.


The answer is 1.89.

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1 solution

Milun Moghe
Feb 19, 2014

Consider that the charged arc is displaced by a small length r.Using the law of cosines the distance of the point (0,r) from the centre as origin to the small piece of charge is s = R 2 + r 2 2 r R c o s θ s=\sqrt{R^{2}+r^{2}-2rRcos\theta} at some angle θ \theta with the axis

Consider a small piece of the ring with charge d q = λ R d θ dq=\lambda Rd\theta the potential energy of the charge q as a fuction of r is therefore

U ( r ) = 2 0 θ k Q λ ( d θ ) s = 2 k Q λ 0 θ d θ 1 + ( ( r R ) 2 2 r c o s θ R ) = I U(r)=2\int_{0}^{\theta}\frac{kQ\lambda(d\theta)}{s}=2kQ\lambda\int_{0}^{\theta}\frac{d\theta}{\sqrt{1+((\frac{r}{R})^{2}-\frac{2rcos\theta}{R})}}=I using approximation Taylors expansion of ( 1 x ) 0.5 = 1 x 2 + 3 x 2 8 (1-x)^{-0.5}=1-\frac{x}{2}+\frac{3x^{2}}{8} neglecting higher order terms obove 2nd order

we get

U ( r ) = Q λ 2 π ε 0 0 θ ( 1 1 2 ( ( r R ) 2 2 r c o s θ R ) + 3 8 ( 2 r c o s θ R ) 2 ) d θ = Q λ 2 π ε 0 0 θ ( 1 + r 2 2 R 2 ( 3 c o s 2 θ 1 ) ) d θ U(r)=\frac{Q\lambda}{2\pi\varepsilon_{0}}\int_{0}^{\theta}(1-\frac{1}{2}((\frac{r}{R})^{2}-\frac{2rcos\theta}{R})+\frac{3}{8}(-\frac{2rcos\theta}{R})^{2})d\theta=\frac{Q\lambda}{2\pi\varepsilon_{0}}\int_{0}^{\theta}(1+\frac{r^{2}}{2R^{2}}(3cos^{2}\theta-1))d\theta

d U d r = F = Q λ 2 π ε 0 ( 1 + r R 2 ( 3 s i n ( 2 θ ) 4 + θ 2 ) ) = M a \frac{dU}{dr}=-F=\frac{Q\lambda}{2\pi\varepsilon_{0}}(1+\frac{r}{R^{2}}(\frac{3sin(2\theta)}{4}+\frac{\theta}{2}))=Ma

If we take derivative of ω \sqrt{\omega}

d ω d θ = 0 \frac{d\sqrt{\omega}}{d\theta}=0 we get θ = arccos ( 1 3 ) \theta=\arccos(\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}) for maximum \omega

we can verify that it is maximum by second derivative test

a = ω 2 x a=-\omega^{2}x

T = 2 π , ω = 1 T=2\pi,\omega=1

M = Q λ 2 π ε 0 R 2 ( arccos ( 1 3 ) 2 + 2 ) M=\frac{Q\lambda}{2\pi\varepsilon_{0}R^{2}}(\frac{\arccos(\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}})}{2}+\sqrt{2})

Forgive me if I am wrong, but I think there is a mistake in the last step. It should be 1 2 \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} instead of 2 \sqrt{2} .

Karthik Kannan - 7 years, 3 months ago

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i think your right thanks for pointing it out .

Milun Moghe - 7 years, 3 months ago

I used the expansion up till two terms only . How do we know we have to expand up till three terms

Akash Yadav - 4 years ago

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