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Quiz # 2 (September 15, 2022)
(Electromagnetism PH603/P703)
Kare
Total: 10 pts
Time: 45 minutes
1. Suppose the potential of a spherical shell of zero thickness and
of radius a, depends only on the polar angle (6), and is given as
V(a, 8).
a) Obtain the expression for the potential, (r, 8) inside and
outside the sphere. Derive an expression for the electric
charge density, o (0) on the spherical surface.
b) Assuming the potential at the surface, V(a, 0) = Vo.cos”0, find
the exact expressions for the potential, ® (r, 0) and charge
density, o (6).
You may want to utilize some of the following properties of the
Legendre polynomials:
Pox) = 1
P(x) =x
Px(x) = $(3x7 - 1)
P(x) = (5x7 - 3x)
Pix) = $(35x* — 30x? + 3)
I, Pr(x)Pi(x) dx = aa
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weQuiz # 3 (October 21, 2022)
(Electromagnetism PH603/P703)
Ree
Total: 10 pts
Time: 45 minutes
4. Find the multipole moments (in spherical polar coordinates) for
the following linear quadrupole oriented along the z-axis where
the charges are separated by the distance ‘a’.
‘Table for Spherical harmonics
1m %,
0 0
cos 0
sin Oe!*
2 2 sin? Oe?#
2 1 \[Esindoosde-W#
2 0 qe (Bcos? a1) .
Ba pane (
2 2 v/aze sin? ache Yio(0.d) = EEA (cos)
Electromagnetism (PH603/P703) by Prolay K. Mal, Aug-Dec, 2022Mid-semester Examination (September 29, 2022)
Kare
‘Total: 25 pts
Electromagnetism (PH603/P703)
‘Time: 2 hours
1. A charge +Q is placed above an infinite grounded conducting plane having a hemispherical
oss of radius a (see the figure below).
(a) What is the potential at an arbitrary point above the conductor system?
(b) What is the total induced charge on the hemispherical boss, Quoss?
+Q
a
1
1
1
'
'
1
i
d
[4+3]
2. Find the potential, (0 < x < a,0 < y R?
(5+2]
You may want to use the Legendre polynomials along with the normalization factor:
Po(x) =1;
P(x) = 2;
Paz) = 3 (822-1);
Py(x) = 4 (5x9 — 3x) ;
fi, Pile) Pe(a)de = ey swEnd-semester Examination (December 7, 2022)
ee
Total: 40 pts
Electromagnetism (P703/PH603)
‘Time: 3 hours
# 1AAn infinite conducting cylinder of radius R, is placed in front of an infinite line charge having
density of \. The distance of the line charge from the center of the cylinder is d as shown in
the figure below. Calculate the induced charge density at the surface of the cylinder for d =
aR.
(6
.% A spherical cavity of radius a is located inside a dielectric medium of electric permittivity, ¢.
A uniform electric field Zp is applied on the dielectric medium,
(a) Using the appropriate boundary conditions, find the potentials inside and outside the cavity
(respectively denoted as ®in(r,4,¢), and Pour(r,4,¢),).
(b) Find an expression for the electric field inside the cavity if ¢ > ep.
(c) Show that the dipole moment due to polarization can be written as,
arco (shes) ao.
[414]4, Using Biot-Savart law, calculate the magnetic fields at an axial point, d distance above the
tenter of a circular current carrying loop (of current 1) of radius a. How does your antilte
Change if you replace the circular loop by a square current loop composed of four current
Slements exch of length 2a? Which loop (circular or the square one) would produce more fel
at the center and why? What is the scenario for large d and why?
[24+3+2+3]
?, with a being constant and kis
4, A sphere of radius R.has the magnetization, M(r) = ak
the unit vector in z-direction.
(a) Find the magnetic moment of the sphere.
(b) Estimate the bound current density in the sphere and the bound surface current density
on the sphere.
(c) Find the magnetic moment of the sphere using the boundary surface current density and
check your results with (a).
(d) What are the expressions for the effective magnetic bound charge density (pm), and the
effective magnetic surface charge density (07)?
[2424243]
5(/As shown in the figure below, consider the hollow grounded sphere of radius b with a concentric
ring of charge of radius a and total charge Q. Using the Green function formalism show that
the electric potential as a point inside the grounded sphere i.e., for r (re) is the larger (smaller) of r and r’Electromagnetism (PH603/P703)
Due on: October 17, 2022
1. Consider a cube having length a with an applied potential of -V and +V, respectively at 2=0
and at
(a) Calculate the potential at a point sinside the cube.
(b) What is the average potential at the center of the cube?
(c) Calculate the surface charge densities at at z=a.
(4) How does your result in (a) change when the potentials are arbitrarily set to be Vi and V2.
respectively at z=0 and at 2=a?
2. The surface of a hollow conducting sphere of inner radius a is divided into an even number
of equal segments by a set of planes; their common line of intersection is the z-axis and they
are distributed uniformly in azimuthal angle. The segments are kept at fixed potentials, +V,
alternatively.
(a) Set up a series representation for the potential inside the sphere for the general case of 2n
segments. Estimate the coeeficients of the series up to 1=3; in general which coefficients would
be non-vanishing?
(b) Next show that for n=1, you retrieve the potential expression derived in the class, ie.,
(7,0) =V- (32 Pi(cosd) - i (ty Ps(cos 0) + i (£)" Pa(cos9)