Chapter 4: Q4.25P (page 197)
Suppose the region abovethe xyplane in Ex. 4.8 is alsofilled withlinear dielectric but of a different susceptibility .Find the potential everywhere.
Short Answer
The potential is
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Chapter 4: Q4.25P (page 197)
Suppose the region abovethe xyplane in Ex. 4.8 is alsofilled withlinear dielectric but of a different susceptibility .Find the potential everywhere.
The potential is
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The Clausius-Mossotti equation (Prob. 4.41) tells you how to calculatethe susceptibility of a nonpolar substance, in terms of the atomic polariz-ability. The Langevin equation tells you how to calculate the susceptibility of apolar substance, in terms of the permanent molecular dipole moment p. Here's howit goes:
(a) The energy of a dipole in an external field E is
(Eq. 4.6), where is the usual polar angle, if we orient the z axis along E.
Statistical mechanics says that for a material in equilibrium at absolute temperature
T, the probability of a given molecule having energy u is proportional to
the Boltzmann factor,
The average energy of the dipoles is therefore
where , and the integration is over all orientations Use this to show that the polarization of a substance
containing N molecules per unit volume is
(4.73)
That's the Langevin formula. Sketch as a function of .
(b) Notice that for large fields/low temperatures, virtually all the molecules arelined up, and the material is nonlinear. Ordinarily, however, kT is much greaterthan p E. Show that in this regime the material is linear, and calculate its susceptibility,in terms of N, p, T, and k. Compute the susceptibility of water at 20°C,and compare the experimental value in Table 4.2. (The dipole moment of wateris ) This is rather far off, because we have again neglected thedistinction between E and Eelse· The agreement is better in low-density gases,for which the difference between E and Eelse is negligible. Try it for water vapor
at 100°C and 1 atm.
According to quantum mechanics, the electron cloud for a hydrogen
atom in the ground state has a charge density
where qis the charge of the electron and ais the Bohr radius. Find the atomic
polarizability of such an atom. [Hint:First calculate the electric field of the electron cloud, then expand the exponential, assuming .
A sphere of radius R carries a polarization
P(r)=kr,
Where k is a constant and r is the vector from the center.
(a) Calculate the bound charges and .
(b) Find the field inside and outside the sphere.
A conducting sphere of radius a, at potential , is surrounded by a
thin concentric spherical shell of radius b,over which someone has glued a surface charge
where K is a constant and is the usual spherical coordinate.
a). Find the potential in each region: (i) , and (ii) .
b). Find the induced surface charge on the conductor.
c). What is the total charge of this system? Check that your answer is consistent with the behavior of v at large r.
Find the field inside a sphere of linear dielectric material in an otherwise uniform electric field (Ex. 4.7) by the following method of successive approximations: First pretend the field inside is just , and use Eq. 4.30 to write down the resulting polarization . This polarization generates a field of its own, (Ex. 4.2), which in turn modifies the polarization by an amount . which further changes the field by an amount , and so on. The resulting field is . Sum the series, and compare your answer with Eq. 4.49.
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