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This document summarizes tutorial problems about Gauss's law and electric potential. It includes three problems: 1) Calculating the electric field from overlapping charged spheres and point charges, 2) Identifying which of two vector functions could represent an electrostatic field, and 3) Finding the electric field in different regions of a coaxial cable with uniformly charged inner and outer cylinders.

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PHY102 Tut#5

This document summarizes tutorial problems about Gauss's law and electric potential. It includes three problems: 1) Calculating the electric field from overlapping charged spheres and point charges, 2) Identifying which of two vector functions could represent an electrostatic field, and 3) Finding the electric field in different regions of a coaxial cable with uniformly charged inner and outer cylinders.

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PHY 102: Introduction to Physics-2

Tutorial-5
(Gausss law, Electric potential)
1. Electric field:
(A) . A point charge 1C is at the center of a spherical shell of radius 1m and
negligible thickness carrying 2C. Find the electric field at r = 0.5m and r =
2m.
(B). Two spheres, each of radius R and carrying
uniform charge densities + and , respectively,
are placed so that they partially overlap (Fig.1).
Call the vector from the positive center to the
negative centerd. Show that the field in the

Fig.1: Two spheres of uniform charge density.

region of overlap is constant, and find its value.


2. Vector function as electrostatic field:
One of these is an impossible electrostatic field. Which one?
(i).

[( )

) ] (ii).

3. Electric field in a coaxial cable.


A long co-axial cable (Fig. 2) carries a uniform
volume charge density on the inner cylinder
(radius a), and a uniform surface charge density

Fig.2 A coaxial cable

on the outer cylinder shell (radius b). This surface charge is negative and
of just the right magnitude so that the cable as a whole is electrically neutral.
Find the electric field in each of the three regions: (i). inside the inner
cylinder (s<a), (ii). Between the cylinders (a<s<b), (iii) outside the cable
(s>b). Plot | |

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