Uniform Electric Fields concept question

[lookingforhlp]

Homework Statement

This is a concept question on a study guide I came across and I really didn't know how to answer it or think about it...I havn't seen anything like this question before

How could you prepare a spherical chamber that has a uniform electric field everywhere inside?

 

[Andrew Mason]

Homework Statement

This is a concept question on a study guide I came across and I really didn't know how to answer it or think about it...I havn't seen anything like this question before

How could you prepare a spherical chamber that has a uniform electric field everywhere inside?

You can create a uniform electric field in the space between two large uniformly charged plates. I think that is the only way that you can create a uniform electric field.

AM

 

[Antiphon]

Drill a spherical hole in a rectangular dielectric body, put it between Andrew Mason's plates. The field inside will be uniform even while the field surrounding the spherical cavity isn't.