# electric field at surface of a conducting sphere...

recently, i tried to find electric field at surface of a charged dielectric and a conducting sphere without using guass law, rather using standard method of integration.... for dielectric sphere i got it right but for conducting one, dividing into thin rings and analysing the fields due to them i got the field less by a factor of 2 . please try to find field like this, and if you get correct, tell where i was missing. see the attachment... i forgot dtheta so i had to edit.... thanks in advance.....

6 years, 5 months ago

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it's not understandable frnd

- 5 years, 6 months ago

Well, I didn't know latex 10 months ago :P

Just ignore it. I found what was wrong.

- 5 years, 6 months ago

Could you tell whats wrong??

- 5 years, 2 months ago

Actually, I didn't add the electric field due to small charge just on the given point, adding which($\dfrac{\sigma}{2 \epsilon_{0}}$), we get correct answer.

- 5 years, 1 month ago

Oh yes... Thanks.. :-)

- 5 years, 1 month ago