Two curved plastic rods are shaped into semicircles and together they form a circle. The rod on top has a uniform charge distribution of +4Q and bottom rod has a charge of -2Q. What is the net electric field at the center of the circle?

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Answer:

[tex]Electric\ field = \dfrac{4KQ }{\pi R^2}[/tex]

Explanation:

Given that

Top rod have +4Q charge

Bottom tube have -2Q charge

We know that electric filed due to half ring on the center given as

[tex]E=\dfrac{2K\lambda }{R}[/tex]

Where

λ is the charge per unit length

K is the constant

R is the radius of ring

For top rod

λ=+4Q/πR

So

[tex]E=\dfrac{2K\times 4Q }{\pi R^2}[/tex]

[tex]E=\dfrac{8KQ }{\pi R^2}[/tex]

For bottom ring

[tex]E'=-\dfrac{2K\times 2Q }{\pi R^2}[/tex]

[tex]E'=-\dfrac{4KQ }{\pi R^2}[/tex]

So the total resultant electric field at the center= E-E'

[tex]Electric\ field = \dfrac{8KQ }{\pi R^2}-\dfrac{4KQ }{\pi R^2}[/tex]

[tex]Electric\ field = \dfrac{4KQ }{\pi R^2}[/tex]