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AP Physics C: E&M
9.2 Electric Potential
8.6 Gauss’s Law
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A vertical solid line representing a long wire is centered vertically and spans the height of the frame. Exactly four small plus signs are evenly spaced along the vertical line from top to bottom. A horizontal dashed line extends to the right from the midpoint of the vertical wire, terminating at a solid black dot labeled P. A short vertical tick mark intersects the horizontal dashed line between the wire and point P, labeled r_0 directly above the tick. A horizontal dimension line with arrowheads at both ends is positioned directly below the horizontal dashed line, extending from the vertical line to the coordinate of point P and labeled r at its center. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Uniformly charged wire and radial coordinates
An experiment is conducted to determine the uniform linear charge density \(\lambda\) of a very long, thin, positively charged wire. The electric potential \(V\) is measured at various radial distances \(r\) from the wire, with the reference potential defined such that \(V = 0\) at a fixed radial distance \(r_0\). Which of the following quantities should be plotted on the vertical and horizontal axes to produce a straight line, and what is the slope of that line in terms of \(\lambda\) and fundamental constants?

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