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yosimba2000
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So if I have a sphere of uniform charge distribution, the electric field at one point away from the circle would be affected by ALL individual charges distributed across the circle, right?
From the picture I drew, there would only be a net effect of E-field in the X direction because there would be equal opposing forces in the Y-direction as well as Z-direction, right?
If I added up all the electric fields in the X-direction at that point using Coulomb's law for each point charge on the sphere, would it also match the E-field calculated from Gauss's Law?
I've drawn a top-down picture here: https://imgur.com/a/kAQjS
From the picture I drew, there would only be a net effect of E-field in the X direction because there would be equal opposing forces in the Y-direction as well as Z-direction, right?
If I added up all the electric fields in the X-direction at that point using Coulomb's law for each point charge on the sphere, would it also match the E-field calculated from Gauss's Law?
I've drawn a top-down picture here: https://imgur.com/a/kAQjS