Homework Help: Gauss's law, cylinder of length L

1. Feb 13, 2010

lidl

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4148/gauss3j.png [Broken] (infinitly long)

$\Phi=\Phi_{0}(1-{r \over R}) {C \over m^2}$

What's the charge of the cylinder of length L?

Again, almost everything was wrong...

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2. Feb 13, 2010

lidl

anyone? :(

3. Feb 14, 2010

lidl

Here's link to my paper: http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/5889/physics.jpg [Broken]

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4. Feb 14, 2010

JaWiB

You need to be much clearer in the problem statement and your work.

Is the cylinder hollow? What do r, R, $$\Phi$$, and $$\Phi_0$$ represent?

Also, it's probably OK to write notes in your homework like "the electric field points radially outward so the flux through the top and bottom of the gaussian cylinder is zero" rather than relying on vague drawings

5. Feb 14, 2010

lidl

This is from the test, as you can see, and everything I knew was written down...

6. Feb 14, 2010

lidl

7. Feb 14, 2010

lidl

ok, now I got the following:

Q=integral of /rho(1-r/R) times rdr d/phi dl

Which is the answer for the question of what's the charge of the cylinder L.

How to calculate it?