Electric Field within Cylinder

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The discussion focuses on calculating the electric field within and outside a uniformly charged cylinder using Gauss's Law. The cylinder has a charge density of \(\rho = -8.3 \times 10^{-7} C/m^3\) and a radius of 0.024m. The electric field inside the cylinder at a distance of 0.017m from the center is determined to be -800 N/C, while the electric field outside at a distance of 0.035m is 770 N/C. The user struggles with applying Gauss's Law correctly for part (b) and seeks clarification on the methodology.

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Electric Field within Cylinder - Gauss's Law

Hi, I am new to this forum. I am dying over this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1. A long cylinder has a uniform fixed charge density [tex]\rho=-8.3\times 10^{ - 7} C/m^3[/tex]. The region outside the cylinder carries no charge. The radius of the cylinder is 0.024m.
(a) What is the electric field at a position inside the cylinder marked "x" which is 0.017m away from the center line of the cylinder? A: -800 N/C
(b) What is the electric field at a position outside the cylinder marked "y", which is 0.035m away from the center line of the cylinder? A: 770 N/C


2. Gauss's Law: [tex]\phi= \frac{\sigma A}{\epsilon_{0}}[/tex]
3. The closest I got to the answer to part (a) is as follows:[tex]\\ Q=\rho\times A\times d=-5.11\times 10^{-11}[/tex][tex]E=K_{e}\frac{Q}{r^2}=-797.55 N/C[/tex]
Part (b) i just can't seem to apply the same method, which i believe is pretty flawed to begin with.
*My textbook doesn't cover this too deeply and my professor gave this to us as a supplemental problem.

After getting nowhere with the electric flux equations and it's diff forms for part (b), I found this page, which seemed to be exactly what I was looking for but i keep getting the wrong answer: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/electric/elecyl.html"
 

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Gauss's Law is the correct way to do this problem. Can you show your work? I can't find you mistakes if I can't see your work.
 
I updated my question. I'm sorry about that. I hope it's easy to see what I'm doing wrong. I've included a jpeg of the problem. Thanks so much
 

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