
Why the electric field just outside the surface of a conductor is normal to the surface?
Important Questions on Electrostatics



A spherical shell of radius is uniformly charged with charge . By Gauss's theorem, find the electric field intensity at a point .
Inside the spherical shell.




In the figure, a very large plane sheet of positive charge is shown. and are two points at distance and from the charge distribution. If is the surface charge density, then the magnitude of electric fields and at and respectively are



A spherical shell of radius is uniformly charged with charge . By Gauss's theorem, find the electric field intensity at a point . Outside the spherical shell.





A spherically symmetric charge distribution is considered with charge density varying as
Where, is the distance from the centre (as shown in figure). The electric field at point will be :

A long cylindrical volume contains a uniformly distributed charge of density . The electric field inside the cylindrical volume at a distance from its axis is _____ .

Electric intensity outside a charged cylinder having the charge per unit length at a distance from its axis is ____.



