Please help with parts 21-28, which have to do with steps 17-20.
I need some help with the calculations, thank you!
1. Cut or tear two hand-length pieces of transparent (e.g. Scotch) tape.
2. Carefully fold over one end of each piece of tape about 1/2" to make a non-stick handle.
3. Press both pieces of tape, sticky side down, on the lab table.
4. Pull both pieces of tape off the desk, taking care not to let them touch anything.
5. Do they attract or repel one another? What does that tell you about the charge of the tapes?
6. Is the tape attracted to your finger?
7. Gently stroke one of the pieces of tape repeatedly.
8. Is the tape still attracted as strongly to your finger? What happened?
9. Take the charged piece of tape and bring it close to a metal object. Is the tape attracted or repelled by the metal?
10. How does the charge of the metal near the tape compare with the charge on the tape?
11. Assuming that the metal was initially neutral, how did it become charged near the tape?
12. Now, tape two pieces of Scotch tape down to the desk, one atop the other.
13. Rip up the bottom piece so that both pieces come up, attached to each other. Rub with your fingers to remove charge.
14. Now rip the two pieces of tape apart.
15. Do the pieces of tape attract or repel one another now?
16. Explain how two initially neutral tapes could each become charged when pulled apart? Do the tapes have similar or opposite charges?
17. Press both pieces of tape, sticky side down, on the desk. Measure their lengths.
18. Pull both pieces of tape off the desk, taking care not to let them touch anything.
19. Pinch the two pieces of tape together at the top where you created the 1/2 non-stick handle.
20. Use a ruler to measure the approximate distance between the centers of the two pieces of tape, do not make contact with either tape.
21. Draw a Free Body Diagram of one of the tapes.
22. Use Newton's second law to find the sum of the forces in the Y-direction.
23. Use Newton's second law to find the sum of the forces in the X-direction.
24. Solve for the total tension of the tape (T) in terms of weight (W) and angle (θ).
25. Solve for Feoul in terms of W and θ.
26. What is Coulomb's Law?
27. Estimate the charge on each piece of tape. For simplicity of calculation, consider the tape to be a point charge on a point mass at the center of the tape. (Take the linear mass density of the tape to be 0.001 kg/m).
28. How many electrons had to be displaced in order to create that charge on the tape?