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A plastic rod, shown on the right, has a uniform linear charge density λ and is bent into a quarter circle. Your goal is to find the electric field at the origin.


Week 3: Electric Field of Continuous Charge Distribution HW 

A plastic rod, shown on the right, has a uniform linear charge density λ and is bent into a quarter circle. Your goal is to find the electric field at the origin. 

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1 Label an arbitrary small piece of charge dq at an angle θ as shown in the figure. Draw a vector representing the field at the origin from that small piece of charge.

2 Write expressions for the x- and y- components of the electric field at the origin due to your chosen small piece of charge. 

3 Write, but do not evaluate, definite integrals for the x- and y- components of the net electric field at the origin. 

4 Evaluate the integrals and write the net electric field in component form.

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