Gauss's Law and Non-Uniform Spherical Charge Distributions

Uses Gauss's law to find the electric field around a non-uniform spherical charge distribution. This is at the AP Physics level.

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Education

Tags:

• Gauss's Law
• non-uniformly charged sphere
• non-uniform
• sphere
• AP Physics

[lasseviren1]

Yes you could.  Only a few of my students have the mathematical background to do this. They are about a year away from being able to do this.

[MrLilipili]

doctor i am very confused! is the volume of sphere not suppose to be 4/3 • π • r³...!?

could you explain why ( dQ = ρ.dv = ρ.4π • r²) ?

[MrWonderfullable]

sur ....u are perfect ! ....i just dont understand why my teacher can't teach me this stuff simply like u do !

[ThePajiatch]

chuchuchuchucu

[2011bini]

THis is great! I must do well on my mid test =D

[Bearkiller777]

thanks that makes sense I have a test tomorrow in Electromagnetics, very helpful. might be watching a few more on a few more topics i am testing on to review.

[oboeizzle]

Could you not just take a triple integral in spherical coordinates and sum up the charge density over the region? I tried this and arrived at the same answer.