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Electric Field Calculations and Approximations

(1) The electric field from a -9.0x10-9 C charge distributed uniformly over a thin disk of radius 0.025 m and thickness much less than 0.1 m is calculated to be -7858 N/C using the equation for a thin disk charge distribution. (2) The calculated electric field is less than that of a point charge of the same magnitude at the same distance, as expected from the multipole expansion where higher order terms reduce the field strength. (3) For the difference between the thin disk and point charge fields to be 1%, the distance must exceed 0.177 m, as determined by equating the next term in the multipole expansion to 0

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Electric Field Calculations and Approximations

(1) The electric field from a -9.0x10-9 C charge distributed uniformly over a thin disk of radius 0.025 m and thickness much less than 0.1 m is calculated to be -7858 N/C using the equation for a thin disk charge distribution. (2) The calculated electric field is less than that of a point charge of the same magnitude at the same distance, as expected from the multipole expansion where higher order terms reduce the field strength. (3) For the difference between the thin disk and point charge fields to be 1%, the distance must exceed 0.177 m, as determined by equating the next term in the multipole expansion to 0

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21.89: (a) From Eq. (22.9), E = iˆ


4πε 0 x x 2 + a 2
 1 ( −9.0 ×10 −9 C)
⇒E = = ( −7858 N C) iˆ.
4πε 0 (0.100 m) (0.100 m) 2 + (0.025 m) 2

b) The electric field is less than that at the same distance from a point charge (8100

1 Q a2 
N C). Since E x →∞ = 
2 
1 − 2
+ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ = Epoint –(Higher order terms).
4πε 0 x  2x 
c) For a 1% difference, we need the next highest term in the expansion that was left
off to be less than 0.01:
a2
≈ 0.01 ⇒ x ≈ a 1 (2 (0.01)) = 0.025 1 0.02 ⇒ x ≈ 0.177 m.
2x2

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