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- PHY102 Physics II © Dr.Cem Özdoğan
- 22-6 The Electric Field due to a Continuous Charge
- For a line of charge, for example, we would report the linear charge density (or charge per unit length) , whose SI unit is the coulomb per meter.
- Table 22-2 shows the other charge densities we shall be using.
- Uniform charge distribution
- When we deal with continuous charge distributions, it is most convenient to express the charge on an object as a charge density (λ,σ,ρ) rather than as a total charge.