1.14 - APPLICATIONS OF GAUSS'S LAW
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What is electric flux?
💡 Hint: Think about the definition involving area and electric field.
State Gauss's law.
💡 Hint: Consider what relates flux to charge.
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What does Gauss's law relate?
💡 Hint: Think about flux through closed surfaces.
True or False: The electric field within a uniformly charged thin spherical shell is zero.
💡 Hint: Remember what happens in symmetrical configurations.
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A long, straight wire carries a current and maintains a linear charge density of 6.0 μC/m. Find the electric field at a point 15 cm from the wire.
💡 Hint: Substitute the values in the formula directly.
A uniformly charged disk has a surface charge density of 5 μC/m². Calculate the electric field at points (1) just above the disk's surface and (2) at a point far away from the disk.
💡 Hint: Use the respective formulas for different distances—directly substitute charge density.
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