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Consider a horizontal charged disk with center O O and having surface charge density σ \sigma , and radius R R , Consider a vertical rectangle of dimensions 2 a × 2 h 2a \times 2h , which cuts the disk at a distance a a from its center, such that half of rectangle lies below the disk and half of it lies above the disk.Use a < < R a << R to find the value of flux of electric field in N m 2 C 1 N m^2 C^{-1} through the rectangle to the nearest integer . The top view is shown below:

Details and assumptions

σ = 1.05 × 1 0 4 C m 2 \sigma = 1.05 \times 10^{-4} Cm^{-2}

R = 3 m R = 3m

a = 2 m m a = 2 mm

h = 1 m h = 1m


The answer is 15.

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2 solutions

Rohit Gupta
May 18, 2015

Nice this is the most apparent solution.....If one wishes to avoid integration.

Spandan Senapati - 4 years, 1 month ago
Balaji Dodda
Dec 14, 2013

Use Gauss's law and a<<R use it to approximate that field on the axis at that height is uniform over the plane surface at that given height above and below the disk.

I guess you face problem of lack of knowledge of latex, please learn it as you can use it to make math elegant and to give complete solutions.Check for formatting guide . I am completing the solution below:

Here, we consider 3 more similar rectangles and cover them by horizontal lids to form a closed cuboid of dimensions 2 a × 2 a × 2 h 2a \times 2a \times 2h , See the figure below, here, the square is the part of cuboid cutting the disk.

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Now , the flux of electric field through all such upright cylinders would be equal , (say ϕ 1 \phi_{1} ), and through each one of horizontal lids ϕ 2 \phi_{2} would be E ± h × ( 2 a ) 2 = 2 a 2 σ ϵ 0 ( 1 h h 2 + R 2 ) E_{\pm h} \times (2a)^2 = \frac{2 a^2 \sigma}{\epsilon_{0}} (1 - \frac{h}{\sqrt{h^2+R^2}}) as (\ a << R)

By Gauss Law, total flux through the cuboid = σ × 4 a 2 ϵ 0 \frac{\sigma \times 4a^2}{\epsilon_{0}} .

Hence, 4 ϕ 1 + 2 ϕ 2 = σ × 4 a 2 ϵ 0 4 \phi_{1} + 2 \phi_{2} = \frac{\sigma \times 4a^2}{\epsilon_{0}}

ϕ 1 = σ × a 2 ϵ 0 h h 2 + R 2 \Rightarrow \boxed{\phi_{1} = \frac{\sigma \times a^2}{\epsilon_{0}} \frac{h}{\sqrt{h^2+R^2}}}

jatin yadav - 7 years, 6 months ago

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Hey Jatin! You are in which class?

Ayush Genio - 7 years, 5 months ago

very excellent usage of Gauss' Law

Shubham Maurya - 7 years ago

Good question sir :)

Gauri shankar Mishra - 5 years, 2 months ago

do u call it a detailed solution........

Manish Bhargao - 7 years, 1 month ago

jatin ...iam sorry..but i didnt understand..what have you done.....please help me out..i have problem in formula part

Max B - 7 years, 1 month ago

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Hi, I used nothing but the formula for electric field due to charged disk on its axis.

jatin yadav - 7 years, 1 month ago

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