Calculate the field within a hole on a charged sphere

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The discussion revolves around calculating the electric field at the center of a positively charged circular piece placed on a uniformly charged negative hollow sphere. It is suggested that the electric fields from the circular piece and the hollow sphere will cancel each other out, leading to no locally generated field at the center. The participants explore the idea that the remaining electric field from the hollow sphere extends radially. They conclude that the fields from both the disk and the sphere can be treated as superimposing, allowing for a combined calculation of the total electric field at the center. The overall consensus is that the fields interact in a way that can be analyzed using principles of superposition and the characteristics of charged planes.
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Homework Statement



If you have a uniformly-charged negative hollow sphere of charge, with a positive circular piece of charged shell superimposed on the outside, what is the electric field in the center of the circular piece? Also what part of the field going through the piece's center is locally generated?

Homework Equations



EA=q/ε ... E=(q/ε)*1/(4*pi*r^2)

The Attempt at a Solution



I assume that none of the field will be locally generated, because the circular-positive piece will totally cancel out with the field of the sphere. I'm not sure where to go from there though, as I would think the remaining sphere's field would extend radially.
 
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Hint:

The circular piece creates the same magnitude, but opposite direction electric field on the two faces. The rest of the sphere would create the same field in these infinitesimally separated points.

What is the total field inside the charged sphere?
 
Alright so I'm guessing that because the fields point in opposite directions, they superimpose on each other, and because the circular-charged regions are essentially flat that we can treat them as planes of charge. Thus the field going through the disk is essentially the same at any arbitrary point such that the field through its center is E=E(disk)+E(sphere). What do you think?
 
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