Voltage of Continuous Bodies

Today we worked with finding Voltage involving continuous bodies. Principles of Gauss's Law were used in this section.

Here we wanted to find the Voltage around a ring. We used the integral shown, and also used excel to break it into 20 pieces and sum them up, which is shown below.

Here we found the Voltage of a line with a charge density of lambda. The work above is similar to the method for Gauss's Law calculations

LAB: Voltage between, and around, two charges

We moved our Voltmeter around several places on the paper, with the two thumbtacks having a certain voltage, to measure the volts experienced at different places on the paper. The paper voltage changed at different places across the paper.