Electric field for a radial power-law charge density

ID: electric-field-for-a-radial-power-law-charge-density

Let the spherically symmetric volume charge density be , with so the origin contains finite charge. Integration gives . Gauss's law yields the radial electric field for . The field tends to zero at the centre if ; finite enclosed charge alone does not guarantee a regular central field.

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