# Electric field inside non conducting sphere

1. Mar 6, 2013

### Fluxthroughme

My book tells me the answer to part b is $1.96*10^5$, but I fail to see where I have gone wrong with this?

2. Mar 6, 2013

### Staff: Mentor

There are many units missing, or wrong units. I would guess one cm<->m-conversion went wrong, but it is hard to tell if you do not add units.

3. Mar 6, 2013

### Fluxthroughme

Fair comment about the units. I don't bother to add them in when I'm doing questions like this until I get something wrong, or if I'm presenting it in, say, an exam. However this clearly wasn't an issue of unit conversion, because there are none. All the given figures are in metres, they stay in metres, and the answer at the end has units of N/m.

4. Mar 6, 2013

### Staff: Mentor

Oh, I read Cm3 as cm3. Anyway, it should be Cm-3.

I can confirm (b) with a direct approach, it is an error in the book.

5. Mar 6, 2013

### Fluxthroughme

I'm terrible with missing minus signs: sorry about that. Thank you for confirming it.