Question

The arrows indicate the direction of the electric field. Draw on the diagram the direction that the electron will experience an electric force

Answer 1

Hi! Do you have any guesses?

Answer 2

Are you there, @IloveHW ?

Answer 3

hey yes i am here

Answer 4

Hi! So, do you have any guesses? If not, then why not tell me anything you know about electric field lines. We'll work our way to the solution quickly as possible.

Answer 5

sorry i have no idea on this

Answer 6

Haha, that's fine.

Electric field lines do have a meaning. Two details are usually helpful for electric field line quesions. They go hand in hand, when you think about them.
1. They go from positive charge to negative charge, or positive electrical potential to negative electrical potential.
2. The direction of the line shows the direction that a positive charge would move in that electric field.

See, they're hand in hand. The positive charge goes away from the other positively charged area, as does the field line direction.

An electron, however, has opposite charge and so it will be attracted to the positive and repelled by the negative. This is the exact opposite of the positive charge, so it will go in the exact opposite direction of the positive charge.

Does this help?

Answer 7

so how would u solve this two arrows?/

Answer 8

Well, each arrow is an electric field line, right?

Answer 9

ok

Answer 10

It shows the direction that a positive charge would go, okay?

Answer 11

k

Answer 12

Then you have to remember that the electron is opposite. It will go in the opposite direction.