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“Find the net force the southern hemisphere of a uniformly charged sphere exerts on the northern hemisphere”
This is Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 2.43, if you have the book.
The problem states Find the net force that the southern hemisphere of a uniformly charged sphere exerts on the ...
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Charge Distribution on a Parallel Plate Capacitor
If a parallel plate capacitor is formed by placing two infinite grounded conducting sheets, one at potential $V_1$ and another at $V_2$, a distance $d$ away from each other, then the charge on either ...
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Scaling of Static Electric Field
The electric field of a point charge goes like $\displaystyle\frac{1}{r^2}$
The electric field of an infinite line goes like $\displaystyle\frac{1}{s}$
The electric field of an infinite plane is ...
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Electric Flux Density - Ring Charge
A ring placed along $y^{2}$ + $z^{2}$ = 4, x = 0 carries a uniform charge of 5 $\mu$C/m. Find D at P(3,0,0)
Should I be using Gauss's Law to solve this problem? I was considering using a spherical ...
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Gauss' law - changes in the magnitude of E field inside the closed surface
Gauss's law says that the flux through a closed surface which contains neither a sink nor a source will be zero.
It's quite clear that all field lines will have to exit somehow, but the
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Electric field due to nonconducting plastic sheets [closed]
Two very large, nonconducting plastic sheets, each 10.0 cm thick, carry uniform charge densities $\sigma_1, \sigma_2, \sigma_3$ and $\sigma_4$ on their surfaces (the four surfaces are in the ...
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Flux from a point charge at the center of a cube [closed]
A charge of $145 \times 10^{-6} C$ is at the center of a cube of edge $.5m$. What is the flux through each face of the cube?
I would write what I have so far, but I don't know how to use MathJax.
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Gauss's Law vs Newton's Law
This is thought experiment. I couldn't get a good answer because I keep getting negative mass.
Gauss's Law say that eletric field is proportional to charge, how much charged is enclosed. Newton's ...
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Gauss' law giving zero field where field is not zero?
Two plastic sheets with charged densities as shown:
I'm trying to find the field at $B$. I obtained the correct answer by adding up the fields created by each charge density. But I realized that ...
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Does Coulomb's Law, with Gauss's Law, imply the existence of only three spatial dimensions?
Coulomb's Law states that the fall-off of the strength of the electrostatic force is inversely proportional to the distance squared of the charges.
Gauss's law implies that a the total flux through a ...
