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  • Jan 23, 2012, 06:12 PM
    erhaus01
    What is Ex, the value of the x-component of the electric field at the origin (x,y) =
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  • Jan 24, 2012, 10:53 AM
    Aurora2000
    First from symmetry considerations, you have that the electric field is directed along the line y=x. So you need only to compute the total Electric field in the origin: this is

    From the figure the charge Q is uniformly distributed on the cyan quarter circle, thus the linear density is . Thus the electric field is

    and the x component is .

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