Monday, 17 October 2016

homework and exercises - What's the electric field with a point charge not in the center of the sphere?



That's a hollow conducting sphere link


My charge is at P (10uC). R = 0.15m. PS = 0.05m. DS = 0.35m. What's the electric field at point D? enter image description here



Answer



Assuming that the point charge is the only charge in the sphere, the electric field will simply follow from Gauss's law:


$$\vec{E}=\frac{1}{4\pi\epsilon}\frac{q_p}{r_{PD}^2}\hat{r}_{PD}$$


Where $\hat{r}_{PD}$ is a unit vector pointing from P to D. Note that in this equation, $\epsilon$ is not the permittivity of free space, but rather the permittivity of the material in the sphere. So there will be a dielectric constant $k$ associated with the sphere, and the permittivity can be calculated as $k\epsilon_0$, where $\epsilon_0$ is $8.85 \times10^{-12}\frac{F}{m}$, as usual.


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