As a safety engineer, you must evaluate the practice of storing flammable conducting liquids in nonconducting conta company supplying a certain liquid has been using a squat, cylindrical plastic container of radius r= 0.24 m and filling 10.2 cm, which is not the container's full interior height (see the figure). Your investigation reveals that during handli the exterior surface of the container commonly acquires a negative charge density of magnitude 2.0 µC/m2 (approxin Because the liquid is a conducting material, the charge on the container induces charge separation within the liquid. negative charge is induced in the center of the liquid's bulk? (b) Assume the capacitance of the central portion of the l ground is 41 pF. What is the potential energy associated with the negative charge in that effective capacitor? (c) If a s between the ground and the central portion of the liquid (through the venting port), the potential energy can be fed in minimum spark energy needed to ignite the liquid is 10 mJ. In this situation, can a spark ignite the liquid? -Venting port (a) Number i Units (b) Number Units (c)

As a safety engineer, you must evaluate the practice of storing flammable conducting liquids in nonconducting conta company supplying a certain liquid has been using a squat, cylindrical plastic container of radius r= 0.24 m and filling 10.2 cm, which is not the container's full interior height (see the figure). Your investigation reveals that during handli the exterior surface of the container commonly acquires a negative charge density of magnitude 2.0 µC/m2 (approxin Because the liquid is a conducting material, the charge on the container induces charge separation within the liquid. negative charge is induced in the center of the liquid's bulk? (b) Assume the capacitance of the central portion of the l ground is 41 pF. What is the potential energy associated with the negative charge in that effective capacitor? (c) If a s between the ground and the central portion of the liquid (through the venting port), the potential energy can be fed in minimum spark energy needed to ignite the liquid is 10 mJ. In this situation, can a spark ignite the liquid? -Venting port (a) Number i Units (b) Number Units (c)

College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305952300

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

Section: Chapter Questions

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