Ink Drops Deflection
Deflection of ink drops in a printer by electric field. The ink drops have a mass $m = 1.00*10^{11}$ kg each and leave the nozzle and travel horizontally toward the paper at velocity $v = 16.0$ m/s . The drops pass through a charging unit that gives each drop a positive charge q by causing it to lose some electrons. The drops then pass between parallel deflecting plates of length $D0 = 1.55 cm$ , where there is a uniform vertical electric field with magnitude $E = 7.90*10^4$ N/C . (Figure 1)
Time to travel the deflection plates is
$t = D/V =0.0155/16 =0.96875$ ms
Acceleration of drop is
$a = F/m = q*E/m$
Total deflection between plates is
$d = a*t^2/2$
Therefore
$2*d =q*(E/m)*(D/V)^2$
$q = (2d)*(m/E)* (V/D)^2 =7.823*10^{-14} C =48900*e (C)$