Electric field a spherical surface

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Hello
i want to solve this problem via another approach
question:
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Book Solution:
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my approach:
Coulomb's law for surface charge:
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as we know the filed point is a fix point and i set the name of h instead of z
(r is in spherical coordinate and haz in cartesian)
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so
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ar in spherical coordinate is equal to below statement in cartesian

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as we know the intergral of Cos(phi) and Sin(phi) in a total period of phi is equal to zero so the main Integrals can be simplified to the following expression:

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i seprate the above integral to two statement

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the below intergal because of is equal zero

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so the output is that is different between this way and the book solution

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what is my problem? and how can find the electric filed in out and in of spherical surface via this approach?

Thanks
 
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Well, there's the posted solution's hard way and then there's your hard way (don't know what you did wrong).
Then there's the easy way: Gaussian surface, which you should invoke since the problem does not force you to do it the hard way. Just ignore the hint - completely!
 
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I am having trouble understanding your notation. Can you clarify what ##\vec{as}## is? It seems to me that you are trying to write the electric field in vector notation. If so, the vector notation is:
$$\vec{E}=\frac{q}{4\pi\epsilon \,\,r^3}\,\vec{r}$$
Notice that its ##r^3## in the denominator.

And yes, Gauss law is a nice way to solve the problem but I guess the problem requires you to take the harder approach.
 
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Pranav-Arora said:
I am having trouble understanding your notation. Can you clarify what ##\vec{as}## is? It seems to me that you are trying to write the electric field in vector notation. If so, the vector notation is:
$$\vec{E}=\frac{q}{4\pi\epsilon \,\,r^3}\,\vec{r}$$
Notice that its ##r^3## in the denominator.

Hello dear user
thanks for your response.
yes gauss law is a shortest way to find the electric filed of this question.but i want to know what is my wrong in this approach that i get different answer?

$$\vec{E}=\frac{q}{4\pi\epsilon \,\,r^3}\,\vec{r}$$
yes [itex]\vec(as)[/itex] is equal to [itex]\vec(ar)[/itex].in electrodynamic of david giriffts he set different char to avoid confusion with ar in spherical and cylindrical coordinates.
 
Hello
i want to know my approach is wrong or i do some mistake?
Thank you