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12 Questions around this concept.
The electric field strength due to a ring of radius at a distance from its center on the axis of the ring carrying a charge is given by:
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At what distance from the center will the electric field be maximum?
In this concept we are going to derive the electric field due to continous charge on a ring -
In this one should notice that there symmetry in this situation. Every element dq can be paired with a similar element on the opposite side of the ring. Every component perpendicular to the x-axis is thus cancelled by a component in the opposite direction.
In the summation process, all the perpendicular components add to zero. Thus we only add the components, which all lie along the +X direction, and this is a simple scalar integral. From Coulomb’s Law in vector form,
As we integrate around the ring, all the terms remain constant
Also,
So, the Net electric field is -
Graph between E and X -
If,
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