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Jan 20 2015 12:11am



A friend did the first part for me, but im not sure how he did it.
Also not sure how to calculate the x and y components
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Jan 20 2015 06:44pm
Gauss's law?
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Jan 20 2015 11:07pm
Quote (Godzillatoss @ Jan 20 2015 01:11am)
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A friend did the first part for me, but im not sure how he did it.
Also not sure how to calculate the x and y components


Lambda (no idea how to type the symbol here) simply tells you charge per length. Literally just take the length of the arc and divide by the charge.

3.6 x 10^-6 divided by er...wait a second, gotta find the length don't we!

if radius is .06 m (notice i had to convert), the circumfrence of the whole circle would be 2*pi*.06 = 0.37699 meters

so divide it by four and boom, you get the length of that quarter circle, which is .0942478 m

So charge per length.....

3.6 x 10^-6 divided by .0942478 = 0.000038 coulumbs/meter.......better written as 3.8 x 10^-5 IMO
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Jan 20 2015 11:54pm
Btw for the electric field calculation, you can pull a totally cheap-ass trick and exploit the fact that circles are symmetrical. Give the middle finger to calculus and just assume the entire charge is concentrated in the middle of the arc.
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