A Uniformly Charged Sphere

Question

questions Use Gauss's Law to find the electric field everywhere due to a uniformly charged insulator shell, like the one shown below. The shell has a total charge Q, which is uniformly distributed throughout its volume.


A spherical cavity of radius a is surrounded by a shell of conducting material with inner radius a and outer radius b. (See figure below.) A point charge +Q is located at the center of the cavity. The conductor carries a total charge -2Q.

(a) What is the charge on the inner surface of the conductor?
(b) What is the charge on the outer surface of the conductor?
(c) Use Gauss's Law to find the electric field for radius r < a.
(d) Use Gauss's Law to find the electric field for radius a < r < b.
(e) Use Gauss's Law to find the electric field for radius r > b.


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