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Jacob White
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- Homework Statement
- I have came across such a method:
Suppose we have two connected and grounded very large plates(like in capacitor). And we put a point like charge in the plane parallel to the plates and at distance x from one of them. The question is what would be the charge induced on each of the plates?
They state that the charges induced on each plate would no be altered by moving a charge in a initial plane and their explain it only by one word - superposition. It is useful because it means that the induced charges would be the same as the intial charge was spread out uniformly in a plane and equivalently we can solve a much simpler problem.
- Relevant Equations
- Superposition
I don't understand why moving charge doesn't affect the magnitude of induced charge. Could someone explain why it is possible? Thanks in advance.