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AP Physics C: E&M
8.4 Electric Fields of Charge Distributions
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A circular disk of radius R centered at the origin in the xy-plane. The x-axis extends horizontally to the right and the y-axis extends vertically upward. In the first quadrant, a small shaded differential sector element is shown at radius r and angle theta relative to the positive x-axis. A dashed radial line segment labeled r extends from the origin to the element. A curved arrow labeled theta indicates the angle counterclockwise from the positive x-axis to the radial line. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Non-uniformly charged disk of radius R centered at the origin.
A thin flat disk of radius \(R\) lies in the \(xy\)-plane centered at the origin. The disk has a non-uniform surface charge density given in polar coordinates by \(\sigma(r, \theta) = \sigma_0 \left(\dfrac{r}{R}\right) \cos\theta\), where \(\sigma_0\) is a positive constant, \(r\) is the radial distance from the origin, and \(\theta\) is measured counterclockwise from the positive \(x\)-axis. Which of the following expressions gives the magnitude of the electric field at the origin?

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