Question icon
Grade 12Electrostatics

An electrostatic field in a region is radially outward with magnitude E=br where b is a constant and r is its radial distance. Find the charge contained in a sphere of radius R in this region(centred at the origin).

Profile image of SOHAN  SARANGI
14 Years agoGrade 12
Answers icon

1 Answer

Profile image of saket shrivastava
14 Years ago

firstly the charge is not at centre otherwise the relation would be E=b(1/r)2 

this is uniform distribution in the sphere with charge density equal to (3be0).......

(e0 is epsilon not)