Consider a uniformly charged ring of radius R and charge +Q. What is the mag- nitude of the electric field outside the ring, a distance r from the center (in the same plane as the plane of the ring, as shown below)? R E=? (a) E = kQ/r² (b) E = kQ/R² %3D (c) E = 0 (d) E > 0, but the expression is more com- plicated than kQ/r².

Consider a uniformly charged ring of radius R and charge +Q. What is the mag- nitude of the electric field outside the ring, a distance r from the center (in the same plane as the plane of the ring, as shown below)? R E=? (a) E = kQ/r² (b) E = kQ/R² %3D (c) E = 0 (d) E > 0, but the expression is more com- plicated than kQ/r².

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Chapter25: Gauss’s Law

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