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AP Physics C: E&M
9.2 Electric Potential
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A horizontal line represents the positive x-axis, starting from a tick mark at x = 0 labeled as the origin. Tick marks are placed at x = a, 2a, 3a, 4a, and 5a. A positive point charge labeled +q is located at x = a, x = 3a, and x = 5a. A negative point charge labeled -q is located at x = 2a and x = 4a. Three dots extend to the right of x = 5a to indicate that the pattern continues infinitely. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Infinite array of alternating point charges along the positive x-axis.
An infinite array of point charges is fixed along the positive \(x\)-axis. Positive point charges \(+q\) are located at \(x = a, 3a, 5a, \dots\) and negative point charges \(-q\) are located at \(x = 2a, 4a, 6a, \dots\), where \(a > 0\). Given that \(1 - \dfrac{1}{2} + \dfrac{1}{3} - \dfrac{1}{4} + \dots = \ln 2\), what is the electric potential at the origin \(x = 0\) due to this infinite collection of charges?

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