Grade 12Electrostatics

how charge distribution is done between the three or more plates of isolated parallel plate capacitor? plz help.......

harshit goswami

15 Years agoGrade 12

1 Answer

SAGAR SINGH - IIT DELHI

15 Years ago

Dear student,

The electric potential at any point in space produced by a continuous charge distribution can be calculated from the point charge expression by integration since voltage is a scalar quantity.

The continuous charge distribution requires an infinite number of charge elements to characterize it, and the required infinite sum is exactly what an integral does. To actually carry out the integration, the charge element is expressed in terms of the geometry of the distribution with the use of some charge density.