Consider A Conducting Ellipsoid That Is Twice As Long Horizontally As It Is Vertically It Has An Egg Like Appearance I 1 (181.96 KiB) Viewed 47 times
Consider A Conducting Ellipsoid That Is Twice As Long Horizontally As It Is Vertically It Has An Egg Like Appearance I 2 (210.88 KiB) Viewed 47 times
Consider a conducting ellipsoid that is twice as long horizontally as it is vertically. It has an egg-like appearance. In equilibrium, excess positive charge will be distributed as shown. charge/area: less more -2 -1 0 1
If we imagine slicing the egg in half along its length to obtain a cross section, then we obtain a great ellipse shown below. Draw the electric field lines everywhere inside and just outside this slice of the conducting ellipsoid. If the field is zero in any location, then write "E = 0" explicitly.
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