You are conducting a laboraroty experiement investigating el

You are conducting a laboraroty experiement investigating electric field lines using Teledeltos paper. Measuring the electric field lines and equipotential lines from a radial disance of the centre of the paper at a set voltage. If you were to cut this paper in half. How would this affect the field confirguration on the other half of the paper?

Solution

If paper is cut into half then the area ineracted with the field becomes half

due to this the field density will be higher near the remaining half paper and hence we will have charge density on the paper will become twice that of initial

External Electric field intensity will remain same as that of original as it will depend on the source which is producing the field