Thursday 5 April 2012

1.8.1 ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO SYSTEMS OF CHARGES



Consider a system of charges q1, q2, ………..qn placed at distances r1, r2….rn with respect to some origin. Then the electric field intensity due to all these charges at a point is found out using the Principle of superposition. Let  intensity due to the number of charges q1, q2, ………..qn. Then the resultant electric intensity  at that point due to these charges is given by the superposition theorem.


Electric field intensity due to the nth charge is


Magnitude of the electric field intensity is given by the equation:

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