You are strongly advised to draw a figure depicting the information below. Drawi

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You are strongly advised to draw a figure depicting the information below. Drawing the figure should be very helpful in solving the problem. A thin straight glass rod 550 cm long is placed on the x-axis so that it is symmetric about the y axis. An electrical charge Q = -3.28 mC is uniformly distributed over it. You will determine the electric field at a point P located at (0.00, 6.50 m). Problems 1a-1e takes you, step by step, working through the problem. This gives practice in using the steps to solve this type of problem. (You are strongly advised to draw figure depicting the information below. Drawing the figure should be very helpful in solving the problem:) The charge density of the rod is Give your answer in the form "+/-a.bc times 10^(y)"C/m. (Do you agree that the SI unit is C/m? Be sure that you understand that this unit is correct!)

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Given:

Q = -328 mC = -328 x 10-3

L = 500 cm = 500 x 10^-2

Hence we know that the charge density of a rod is define as the charge present in it's unit length

= Q/L

= -328 x 10-3/500 x 10-2

= - 6.56 x 10-2 C/m

Yes I agree with this unit because unit correctly define that it's charge per unit length.

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