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find the electric field 23 cm from the center of a thin, spherical shell of radius 16.0 cm with a total charge of 33.8 mC distributed uniformly on its surface. What is the magnitude and the direction

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find the electric field 23 cm from the center of a thin, spherical shell of radius 16.0 cm with a total charge of 33.8 mC distributed uniformly on its surface. What is the magnitude and the direction

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The amount of charge distributed over the surface is,

$\begin{array}{rcl} q & = & 33.8 mC \\ = & 33.8 \times 10^{- 3} C \end{array}$

The distance from the center of a spherical shell is,

$\begin{array}{rcl} r & = & 23 cm \\ = & 0.23 m \end{array}$

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