One application of Gauss’ Law is to find the electric field due to a charged particle. In this section, we present another application – the electric field due to an infinite line of charge. The resul...One application of Gauss’ Law is to find the electric field due to a charged particle. In this section, we present another application – the electric field due to an infinite line of charge. The result serves as a useful “building block” in a number of other problems, including determination of the capacitance of coaxial cable.
One application of Gauss’ Law is to find the electric field due to a charged particle. In this section, we present another application – the electric field due to an infinite line of charge. The resul...One application of Gauss’ Law is to find the electric field due to a charged particle. In this section, we present another application – the electric field due to an infinite line of charge. The result serves as a useful “building block” in a number of other problems, including determination of the capacitance of coaxial cable.