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AP Physics C: E&M
9.2 Electric Potential
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A semicircular curved line of radius R is centered at the origin O in the xy-plane, lying entirely in the region y \ge 0. The arc starts at (R,0), passes through (0,R), and ends at (-R,0). A dashed straight line segment of length R extends from the origin O to a point on the arc at an angle \theta measured counterclockwise from the positive x-axis. A small segment of the arc at angle \theta is marked and labeled R\,d\theta. A curved arrow near the origin indicates the angle \theta from the positive x-axis to the dashed line. The origin is marked with a dot labeled O. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Semicircular charged arc of radius R.
A thin, nonconducting plastic rod is bent into a semicircle of radius \(R\) centered at the origin. The rod carries a non-uniform linear charge density given by \(\lambda(\theta) = \lambda_0 \sin\theta\), where \(\lambda_0\) is a positive constant and \(\theta\) is the angle measured counterclockwise from the positive \(x\)-axis (\(0 \le \theta \le \pi\)). Assuming the electric potential is zero at infinity, what is the electric potential at the origin?

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