JEE Advance - Physics (2007 - Paper 2 Offline - No. 6)
A spherical portion has been removed from a solid sphere having a charge distributed uniformly in its volume as shown in the figure. The electric field inside the emptied space is
Explanation
When cavity is not present:
Electric field inside the solid sphere
$$ \overrightarrow{\mathrm{E}_{1}}=\frac{\rho}{3 \varepsilon_{0}} \overrightarrow{r_{1}} $$ ..... (i)
Solid sphere after making cavity inside solid sphere,
$$ \overrightarrow{\mathrm{E}_{2}}=\frac{\rho}{3 \varepsilon_{0}} \overrightarrow{r_{2}} $$ ...... (ii)
$${\overrightarrow E _{net}} = \overrightarrow {{E_1}} - \overrightarrow {{E_2}} = {\rho \over {3{\varepsilon _0}}}\overrightarrow {{r_1}} - {\rho \over {3{\varepsilon _0}}}\overrightarrow {{r_2}} $$
$$=\frac{\rho}{3 \varepsilon_{0}}\left(\overrightarrow{r_{1}}-\overrightarrow{r_{2}}\right) $$ ...... (iii)
From eq (iii), we get
$$\therefore \quad \mathrm{E}_{\mathrm{net}}=\frac{\rho}{3 \varepsilon_{0}}(\vec{r})$$
Hence, electric field inside the emptied space (cavity) is non-zero and uniform.
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