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education/physics/PHYS2220/Electric Charge.md

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 # Continuous Charge Distributions
 It's largely impossible to sum the electric field from every particle in a piece of matter, so the approximation is made that the charge is spread continuously over the distribution.
-- If the charge distribution extends throughout a 3d volume, we describe it in terms of the **volume charge density** $\rho$, with units of $\frac{C}{m^3}$. 
-- For charge distributions spread over surf
+- If the charge distribution extends throughout a *3d volume*, we describe it in terms of the **volume charge density** $\rho$, with units of $\frac{C}{m^3}$. 
+- For charge distributions spread over *surfaces*, we use **surface charge density** $\sigma$ ($\frac{C}{m^2}$).
+- For charge distributions spread over *lines*, we use **line charge density** $\lambda$ ($\frac{C}{m}$).