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Chapter 16, Problem 18QAP
To determine
Whether the charge density is zero everywhere inside the surface if a net electric flux out of a closed surface is zero or not.
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a) A student measures the electric flux through a closed spherical surface of
volume V to be X. She then removes the charge from inside the spherical
surface and places it in a closed cylindrical surface of volume V/2. She then
claims that the flux through the cylindrical surface is 2X. Is the student right or
wrong ? Give reasons to your answers
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Question 17
In fair weather, the electric field in the air at a
particular location immediately above the
Earth's surface is 117 N/C directed downward.
Imagine the surface charge density is uniform
over the entire surface of the planet. What
then is the magnitude of the net charge, in KC,
of the whole surface of the Earth?
A non-conducting plane acquires a surface charge density of -125 uC/m^2.
a) Determine the magnitude of the electric field generated by this charge distribution.
b) Draw in Figure the direction of the field
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