Showing posts with label unit area. Show all posts
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Saturday, 30 December 2017

Electric Charge density, definition, explanation

Definition:

"Electric charge density is the amount of charge on unit volume space or surface or area."


Explanation:

Electric charge density is the density of charge on unit area, the charge could be less or  more, and charge could be positive or negative.
as shown in figure 1 below, in which there is positive charge on surface but less and on figure 2, there is more positive charge.
So area in figure 2 have more electric charge density than figure 1.
The area or volume could be one dimensional, two dimensional and three dimensional. 


Formula:

The electric charge density can be written in the form,
Where p is the charge density and q is the amount of charge and v is the volume of space and unit area. we can replace the v by A, when there is unit area.

Electric flux density, definition, explanation

Definition:

"Electric flux density is the electric flux passing through some unit area, and its direction is perpendicular to that unit area."

Explanation:

"Electric flux density", when we break down this sentence into "electric flux" and "density".
Then it is easy to understand that, the density of electric flux across some area. Consider there is a unit area shown below.


Electric flux is passing through this, in direction perpendicular to the unit area. The amount of electric flux passing through this unit area, in direction perpendicular to the unit area is called Electric flux density.


Formula:

When we write mathematically the electric flux density it is equal to the product of electric field E and permittivity of material.

                                                                           D=Ɛ.E
Unit:
The unit of electric flux density is coulombs per meter squared.