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Static Electric Fields

.....................................(2.16)

2.  Infinite Sheet of Charge

As a second example of application of Gauss's theorem, we consider an infinite charged sheet covering the x-z plane as shown in figure 2.5.

Assuming a surface charge density of for the infinite surface charge, if we consider a cylindrical volume having sides placed symmetrically as shown in figure 5, we can write:

..............(2.17)

Fig 2.5: Infinite Sheet of Charge