Question

A charged ball B hangs from a silk thread S, which makes an angle θ with a large charged conducting sheet  P, as shown in the figure. The surface charge density σ  of the sheet is proportional to

(a) sin θ  

(b) tan θ 

(c) cos θ

(c) cos θ

Answer

(b) tan θ 

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