Q. A system consists of a uniformly charged sphere of radius and a surrounding medium filled by a charge with the volume density , where is a positive constant and is the distance from the centre of the sphere. Find the charge of the sphere for which the electric field intensity outside the sphere is independent of .

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Solution:

Using Gauss theorem for spherical surface of radius outside the sphere with a uniform charge density and a charge

;

The intensity does not depend on if
or