Consider a uniformly charged ring of radius cm. Let be the distance along the perpendicular axis passing through the ring center. What value of (in cm) gives the maximum electric field?
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The strength of electric field at the given point is E = 4 π ϵ 0 Q × ( x 2 + R 2 ) 2 3 x , where Q and R are the charge of the ring and it's radius respectively. This is maximum when d x d E = 0 ⟹ x = 2 R . In this problem, R = 1 cm. So the strength of the electric field is maximum when x = 2 1 ≈ 0 . 7 0 7 cm.