Charged Ring Maximum Field

Consider a uniformly charged ring of radius 1 1 cm. Let x x be the distance along the perpendicular axis passing through the ring center. What value of x x (in cm) gives the maximum electric field?


The answer is 0.707.

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The strength of electric field at the given point is E = Q 4 π ϵ 0 × x ( x 2 + R 2 ) 3 2 E=\dfrac{Q}{4π\epsilon_0}\times \dfrac{x}{(x^2+R^2)^{\frac{3}{2}}} , where Q Q and R R are the charge of the ring and it's radius respectively. This is maximum when d E d x = 0 x = R 2 \dfrac{dE}{dx}=0\implies x=\dfrac{R}{\sqrt 2} . In this problem, R = 1 R=1 cm. So the strength of the electric field is maximum when x = 1 2 0.707 x=\dfrac{1}{\sqrt 2}\approx \boxed {0.707} cm.

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