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1) Gauss's law can be used to find the electric field magnitude inside a cylindrical nonconducting surface with uniform volume charge density. 2) Consider a Gaussian surface in the form of a cylinder of radius r. The electric flux through the end caps is zero, and the flux through the curved surface is -E(2πrh). 3) Applying Gauss's law gives E = λ/(ε0 2πr), where λ is the linear charge density, so the electric field does not depend on the length of the cylinder.

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1) Gauss's law can be used to find the electric field magnitude inside a cylindrical nonconducting surface with uniform volume charge density. 2) Consider a Gaussian surface in the form of a cylinder of radius r. The electric flux through the end caps is zero, and the flux through the curved surface is -E(2πrh). 3) Applying Gauss's law gives E = λ/(ε0 2πr), where λ is the linear charge density, so the electric field does not depend on the length of the cylinder.

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UNIVERSITY OF OKARA

Assignment on
Applied Physics

Submitted To :
Mam Iram Aziz
Submitted By:
Amtul Kafi
F19-BSIT-1044
Q#1:
Explain how Gauss’s law can be find the electric field
magnitude inside a cylindrical nonconducting surface
(Such as rod) with a uniform volume charge density ⋏?
Ans: Application of Gauss’s law:-
Apply Gauss’s law, cylindrical symmetry;

Consider an infinity long cylindrical plastic rod with a uniform


charge density ⋏. Find the electric field magnitude E inside of the rod
at radius r from the central axis of the rod. The charge distribution
and the field have cylindrical symmetric. Consider a Gaussian
surface in the form of a cylinder at radius r and height h. The electric
field has the same magnitude at any point of cylinder and radically
inward (the charge is positive). 0
The total electric flux through the Gaussian surface is the algebraic
sum of the flux due to two end copy and the cylindrical part of the
Gaussian surface.
For all points on the end caps, the electric field ⃗E is perpendicular to
the area element dA. Therefore, the electric flux through the caps is
zero.
φ=∮ E . dA=∮ ( Ecosθ ) dA

θ=90 ⟹ cos 90=0

φ=0

The electric flux through the curved surface of the cylinder, we


select a small patch element on the surface, the area vector is
radically inward (inside from the interior of the Gaussian surface)
and in the ssame direction as the field. The angle between E and dA
is 180.
φ=∮ E . dA

φ=E ( cosθ ) dA

θ=180

θ=180 ⟹ cos180 = -1
E is same at all points on the curved surface.
= - E∮ dA
Total area of the cylinder is the product of height ‘h’ and
circumference ‘2 π r’
φ=−E( 2 πrh)

Therefore, the total electric flux


φ=0+0+ ¿(−E( 2 πrh))

φ=−E( 2 πrh)

Now Gauss’s law,


qenc
φ=
ε0
_________ (1)

The linear charge density λ is equal to charge per unit length.


qenc
λ=
h

q enc= λ h put ion eq (1)

λh
φ=
ε0

Put the value of electric flux in above eq.


λh
−E( 2 πrh) =
ε0

λh
-E = ε 0 2 πrh

λ
-E = ε 0 2 πr

λ
E =- ε 0 2 πr

Electric field due to straight line of charge does not depend upon
length of line but on the radical distance ‘r’ from the line.
The direction of electric field is radically inward if the line charge is
negative and radically outward if it is positive.

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