Electric Field of Charged Ring

Total charge on ring: Q

Charge per unit
length: = Q/2a
Charge on arc: dq

kdq kdq
dE = =
r2 x 2 + a2
x kxdq Ex
dEx = dE cos = dE = 2
x 2 + a2 (x + a2 )3/2
x 0
kx kQx
Z
x
Ex = 2 dq E x = x0
(x + a2 )3/2 (x2 + a2 )3/2
kQx kQ
|x|  a : Ex ' , x  a : Ex ' 2
a3 x

(dEx /dx)x=x0 = 0 x0 = a/ 2

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