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AP Physics C: E&M
8.6 Gauss’s Law
8.4 Electric Fields of Charge Distributions
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A horizontal cylinder extending horizontally with dashed lines at both left and right ends indicating an infinite length. A horizontal dash-dotted line runs along the central axis of the cylinder. A vertical double-headed arrow from the central axis to the outer top boundary is labeled R. Coaxial with the cylinder is a smaller cylindrical dashed outline of length L and radius r, where a vertical double-headed arrow from the central axis to the top boundary of this inner dashed cylinder is labeled r. A horizontal dimension line spanning the length of the inner dashed cylinder is labeled L. The region inside the outer cylinder has grayscale shading that is darkest near the central axis and gradually becomes lighter moving radially outward toward radius R. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Nonuniform charged cylinder and coaxial cylindrical Gaussian surface of radius r and length L.
An infinitely long, solid nonconducting cylinder of radius \(R\) has a nonuniform volume charge density given by \(\rho(r) = \rho_0 \left(1 - \dfrac{r}{R}\right)\) for \(r \le R\), where \(r\) is the radial distance from the central axis and \(\rho_0\) is a positive constant. Which of the following integral expressions correctly gives the magnitude of the electric field \(E(r)\) at a distance \(r < R\) from the central axis?

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