Surface charge density Definition and 81 Threads

In this question I need to find the inner and outer charge density of the shell I did part A just fine, I used the formula for an electric field due to a line charge, but parts B and C is what's really confusing me. I'm not really sure how to go about it, I placed a spherical gaussian surface...

Problem: I have done part a) in spherical polar coordinates. For part b) I thought it would be just: $$\sigma = -\epsilon_0 \frac{\partial V}{\partial r}$$ But I got confused by "You may want to use different coordinate systems .." So I assume partial derivative w.r.t to r is the spherical...

The correct answer to this problem is: ##\sigma = \varepsilon_0E\frac{\varepsilon-1}{\varepsilon}## Here is my attempt to solve it, please tell me what is my mistake? ##E_{in} = E_{out} - E_{ind}## ##E_{ind} = E_{out} - E_{in}## ##E_{in} = \frac{E_{out}}{\varepsilon}## ##E_{ind} = E_{out} -...

$$\phi_E=\dfrac{Q_{\textrm{enclosed}}}{\varepsilon_0}\Rightarrow Q_{\textrm{enclosed}}=9,6\cdot 10^{-7}\, \textrm{C}$$ $$Q_{\textrm{enclosed}}=\sigma S=\sigma \pi R^2\Rightarrow \sigma =\dfrac{Q_{\textrm{enclosed}}}{\pi (0,1^2)}=3,04\cdot 10^{-5}\, \textrm{C}/\textrm{m}^2$$ I have a lot of...

hi guys our professor asked us to confirm the units of volume charge density ρ and also the surface charge density σ of a dielectric material given by $$ \rho = \frac{-1}{4\pi k} \vec{E}\cdot\;grad(k) $$ $$ \sigma= \frac{-(k-1)}{4\pi} \vec{E_{1}}\cdot\;\vec{n} $$ I am somehow confused about the...

When I plug in the numbers I get ##2.9513\cdot 10^{-5}C/m^2##, not ##17.6\cdot 10^{-6} C/m^2##. Can someone point out where I'm going wrong?

The textbook says ' A conducting sphere shell with radius R is charged until the magnitude of the electric field just outside its surface is E. Then the surface charge density is σ = ϵ0 * E. ' The textbook does show why. Can anybody explain for me?

Homework Statement Homework Equations While solving this problem at r >>a ,the corresponding potential due to the dipole is kpcosθ/r2(potential due a dipole) where k is the electrostatic constt. ...(1) If σ(θ) is the surface charge density induced due to external electric field. then the...

Homework Statement [/B]Homework Equations [/B] ∫Dperpendiculards=qenclosed freecharge D=ε0E+P The Attempt at a Solution D1+D2=q/2πr2 at a distance r from the centre How to find D2 which is at the lower boundary e.g inside the dielectric??

There are few thing I'm not sure of and be happy for clarifications. In general: at steady state, what are the electric-field,potential, and current boundary conditions between a conductor and a dielectric medium? more specific: a) When dealing with a perfect conductor there exist a surface...

Homework Statement Consider an infinitely long one dimensional conducting wire with a homeogenous charge density ##\lambda##, running along the central axis of an infinitely long cyclindrical glass casing of radius b (glass is a dielectric material). Calculate: a) The displacement vector...

Homework Statement A spherical shell of radius R has a surface charge distribution σ = k sinφ. Calculate the dipole moment of the spherical shell. Homework Equations P[/B]' = ∫r' σ(r') da' The Attempt at a Solution So I believe my dipole will be directed along the y axis, as the function...

Homework Statement Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution I don't understand how it looks like, how to approach this problem. I think it's maybe image charge or Laplace equation

I'm working on this: When I consider a disc with radius ##a## and total charge ##Q## uniformly distributed (placed in the XY plane and centered at the origin) and determine the volume charge density in cylindrical coordinates, I have assumed is of the form ##\rho=A \delta (z) U(R-r)##, (##U## is...

Homework Statement Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution I have the full solution, the first part being: I don't understand how they came up with the expression for Vab. I know usually ΔV=-∫E dl, but I'm not sure how they found their expression. Can someone explain? Thanks.

Homework Statement Calculate the surface charge density induced by a point source above an infinite conducting plane, with 0 potential. Homework Equations ##E=-\nabla V## ##V=\frac{q}{4\pi \epsilon_0 r}## The Attempt at a Solution I used the method of image charges and I calculated the...

Hello! I am a bit confused about calculating the induced surface charge density on an infinite conducting plane, with 0 potential, in the presence of a charge, q, a distance d above it. Assuming that the plane is in xy plane and the charge in positive z region, in the book they use the method of...

Homework Statement The electric field strength just above one face of a copper penny is 2230 N/C. What is the surface charge density on this face of the penny? Homework Equations Electric field of an infinite plane of charge = η/(2*ε0) The Attempt at a Solution I used the above equation, and...

Homework Statement Homework Equations E=σ/(2Eo) σ=2Eoma/e a=Δv/Δt The Attempt at a Solution So doing my best to read the velocity over time graph I came up with Δv/Δt=(-2E5m/s)/(10E-12s)=-2E17 m/s/s σ=2Eoma/e =2(8.99E-9C)(9.109E-31kg)(-2E17m/s/s)/(1.6022E-19) =-0.020444 C/m^2 but by the...

Homework Statement The electric dipole moment for the water molecule equals $$ p = 6.13 × 10−30 C · m $$ Suppose that in the glass of water all molecular dipoles could be made to point down. Calculate the resulting surface charge density at the upper water surfaceHomework Equations [/B] ## P...

Homework Statement It is known that the potencial is given as V = 80 ρ0.6 volts. Assuming free space conditions, find a) E, b) the volume charge density at ρ=0.5 m and c) the total charge lying withing the closed surface ρ=0.6, 0<z<1 Homework Equations E[/B]=-∇VThe Attempt at a Solution (this...

Homework Statement In the "Before" scenario, there is conductive plate in electrostatic equilibrium with uniform surface charge density +η (the plate has some thickness but the width and length are significantly larger). In the "After" scenario, an infinite plane of negative charge with fixed...

Homework Statement This is problem 3.4 from Prucell and Morin if you have the book. Homework Equations None The Attempt at a Solution Electric field inside a conducting sphere is zero. Let P be a point on one of its equatorial plane. The field along the plane is zero. So I know the charge...

Homework Statement Electric current of I amperes flows along the z-axis from (0, 0,-∞) to (0, 0, -a) and from there it spreads over a conducting sphere r = a in the -aθ direction, comes to the point (0; 0; a) and goes to (0, 0, ∞) again along the z-axis. What is the surface current density at...

A disk with a uniform positive surface charge density lies in the x-y plane, centered on the origin. The disk contains 2.5 x 10-6 C/m2 of charge, and is 7.5 cm in radius. What is the electric field at z = 15 cm? I have used the formula...

Hi... I want to know why charge density is higher at sharp points in a conductor? I have gone through the analogy of two spheres connected by a wire... But is there any other explanation which is not specific to spheres...?

Homework Statement A conducting sphere with radius R is charged to voltage V0 (relative to a point an infinite distance from the sphere where the potential is zero). What is the surface charge density σ? Express your answer in terms of the given quantities and ϵ0. Homework Equations Electric...

Hi all, I am wondering how is it possible that the polarization effects of a dielectric material remain confined inside the material itself. That is: for a LIH dielectric, the equations state that the electric field inside the material is reduced by \epsilon_r. But outside the material, no...

I am working on a problem of electrostatics, and I am having troubles in trying to figure out one part of it. 1. Homework Statement It consists of an inner solid cylinder of radius ##a## with a voltage ##V_A##, and an outer coaxial cylindrical shell of inner radius ##b## and outer radius ##c##...

Homework Statement a parallel plate capacitor has 2 plates separated by a dielectric of rel. permittivity 5.0 are separated by 0.20mm and have area of 5.0 cm2. Potential difference between the plates is 500V. I need to be able to calculate the free surface charge density...

hello. The problem is : A metallic horizontal disk of radius R has been charged on its top surface with a total charge Q such that its surface charge density is "non uniform" and governed by the expression σ=q|cosθ|*r where r and θ are the polar coordinates measured from the center O of the...

Im confused by a concept i have run across in Griffiths electrodynamics. E_{out} - E_{in} = \frac{\sigma_{free}}{\epsilon_0} However, in the case of a uniform, circular charge density, \vec{E_{in}} = \frac{\rho r}{3\epsilon_0}\hat{r} \vec{E_{out}} = \frac{\rho R^3}{3\epsilon_0...

Rather than try to explain what I am talking about, I am going to link to an image of it below. My question is in regards to the negative value I marked in the answer (the one for the surface charge density for the inside of the outer shell). While I get the concept that it would be negative...

Hi folks, I am having trouble generalizing a well-known problem. Let's say we have a cylindrical cavity inside a conductor, and in this cavity runs a line charge λ. I would now like to know the surface charge density on the inside wall of the cavity, but with the line charge not in the center of...

Homework Statement A point charge +Q is placed at the center of a spherical insulator of radius a. The insulator completely fills three cavity of a spherical conducting shell of radius b. Find the inner and outer surface charge density of the conductor and the bound surface charge density of...

Homework Statement The electric field intensity in polystyrene (relative permittivity 2.55) filling the space between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor is 10kV/m. The distance between the plates is 1.5mm. Calculate the surface charge density of free charge on the plates, and the surface...

Surface charge density is denoted with a lower case sigma: σ Though sometimes I also see it denoted as σ with a subscript 0. What is the difference in these notations? Thank you.

Homework Statement Using the method of images, solve the following The Attempt at a Solution I have very little idea on how to solve this. I looked up various methods online and none seem to be what the lecturer has used. This is the solution he posted up, but as usual it is missing 300...

Homework Statement Consider a spherical shell with radius R and surface charge density σ = σ0 cosθ (a) What is the total charge carried by the shell? (b) Please evaluate the charge carried by the upper hemisphere, in terms of σ0. Homework Equations Q=∫σ0 cosθ da The...

Homework Statement A nonconducting wall carries charge with a uniform density of 8.55 µC/cm2. (a) What is the electric field 8.55 cm in front of the wall if 8.55 cm is small compared with the dimensions of the wall? Homework Equations σ= Q/A E=σ/2Eo The Attempt at a Solution...

I answered my own question but thank you for the help.

Homework Statement Two large parallel metal plate sheets carrying opposite electric charges of equal magnitude are separated by a distance of 38.0mm. The electric field between them is uniform and has magnitude 480 N/C. a) What is the potential difference between the sheets? b) Which sheet is...

Homework Statement There is a region of space containing a uniform electric field of strength E. A neutral conducting cube with side length s is placed into this field. The cube is aligned with the field. You may assume that the electric field outside the cube is unaffected by any changes that...

Homework Statement A disk of radius 2.30 cm has a surface charge density of 5.22 μC/m2 on its upper face. What is the magnitude of the electric field produced by the disk at a point on its central axis at distance z = 11.2 cm from the disk? Homework Equations Formula for an electric...

Homework Statement 2. The attempt at a solution I have the solution, but it's pretty confusing so I want to see if anyone else can walk me through step by step. The first step is pretty clear...You have to find the acceleration that the proton will experience as it moves towards the...

In a paper by Coombes and Laue...

Homework Statement Consider two coaxial conducting cylinders with radii a and 3a and length L. The region a<r<2a is filled with a material of conductivity σ1, and the region 2a<r<3a has conductivity σ2. (Assume ε1=ε2=εo.) The inner cylinder is held at potential V0 and the outer cylinder at...

Homework Statement [PLAIN]http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8974/61038710.png The Attempt at a Solution Well \sigma = charge/area But how am I suppose to find the area if I am not even given the dimensions of the plates?

Homework Statement A spark occurs at the tip of a metal needle if the electric field strength exceeds 3.0x10^6 N/C. What is the minimum surface charge density for producing a spark? Homework Equations int(EdA) = (Qin) / e0 The Attempt at a Solution I imagine the surface as a cylinder with...

Homework Statement An infinite sheet of charge with a surface charge density of +7.8 micro-Coulomb/m2 lies on x-axis (technically in x-z plane). Another infinite sheet of charge with an unknown charge density lies on y-axis (technically in y-z plane). A positive point charge is placed in first...