Solution Exercise field created by a cone portion
►Back to the Exercise Field created by a portion of a cone. The planes passing through the axis Ox are the charge distribution of planes of symmetry. The electrostatic field must belong simultaneously to all of these plans therefore their intersection: the field has its direction carried by the axis Ox Consider a surface element S on the truncated cone centered about the point P. The figure in the plane of the sheet is as follows: This surface element creates an elementary field O: Only the projection of this vector onto axis Ox contributes to the field at the point O: L is expressed as a function of r: We get : The field O is: ►Back to exercise ►See the list of exercises