More Gauss practice (hard)

Two identical point charges + q +q are placed on the x-axis at ± 5 cm \pm 5~\mbox{cm} . As we know, the total electric field produced by the charges is often visualized using field lines. Consider two particular field lines, one from the left charge (Line A) and one from the right (Line B). The tangent vector to Line A is (1,1) when it leaves the left charge and the tangent vector to Line B is (-1,1) when it leaves the right charge. What is the minimum distance d m i n d_{min} in centimeters between these two lines?


The answer is 3.74.

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Jafar Badour
Mar 16, 2015

this problem is wrong

Well actually the problem is all right.

Anant Kumar - 6 years, 2 months ago

How to even solve it??

Aniswar S K - 4 years, 1 month ago

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using gauss law, you can equate the 2 fluxes. The technique is shown in Krotov, problem 3.2

Prathyush Poduval - 4 years, 1 month ago

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It is not clearly stated... May not be wrong..?

Vishal Yadav - 4 years, 1 month ago

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@Vishal Yadav I Think the problem is clearly stated....

Prathyush Poduval - 4 years, 1 month ago

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@Prathyush Poduval A correct and complete solution would prove it is clearly stated. :)

Vishal Yadav - 4 years, 1 month ago

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@Vishal Yadav Yeah I'll upload a complete solution after sometime

Prathyush Poduval - 4 years, 1 month ago

@Vishal Yadav I am not able to write the solution since i viewed the answer, I'll write it down and upload a link

Prathyush Poduval - 4 years, 1 month ago

@Vishal Yadav @Aniswar S K https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5zW-9OpIVypSmpQQnRUcTVMdk5PejVueElTNk9VRlFjdWpr/view?usp=drivesdk this is my solution and https://www.desmos.com/calculator/tclgmuqtgv this is the graph of d vs y from which you can get the minimum distance

Prathyush Poduval - 4 years, 1 month ago

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