Charged Sphere

Highlights of the activity

(Estimated time: 35-45 minutes with wrap-up discussion.)

Students

1. work in small groups to explore the electric potential due to a sphere with a spherically symmetric, linearly decreasing, negative volume charge density.
2. examine the potential inside and outside the sphere
3. relate electric potential to electric field

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Instructor's Guide

• Wiki version

vfsurfchargedsphereguide.pdf

Student Handouts

vfsurfchargedspherehand.pdf

vfsurfchargedspherehand.tex