Chapter 2: Q43P (page 107)
Find the capacitance per unit length of two coaxial metal cylindrical tubes, of radiand.

Short Answer
The capacitance per unit length is
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Chapter 2: Q43P (page 107)
Find the capacitance per unit length of two coaxial metal cylindrical tubes, of radiand.

The capacitance per unit length is
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The electric potential of some configuration is given by the expression
Where and are constants. Find the electric field , the charge density , and the total charge .
For the charge configuration of Prob. 2.15, find the potential at the center, using infinity as your reference point.
Find the interaction energy
for two point
charges and a distance aapart.
In a vacuum diode, electrons are "boiled" off a hot cathode, at potential zero, and accelerated across a gap to the anode, which is held at positive potential . The cloud of moving electrons within the gap (called space charge) quickly builds up to the point where it reduces the field at the surface of the cathode to zero. From then on, a steady current I flows between the plates.
Suppose the plates are large relative to the separation (in Fig. 2.55), so
that edge effects can be neglected. Then and v (the speed of the electrons) are all functions of x alone.
Write Poisson's equation for the region between the plates.
Assuming the electrons start from rest at the cathode, what is their speed at point x , where the potential is V(x)?
In the steady state, I is independent of x. What, then, is the relation between p and v?
Use these three results to obtain a differential equation for V, by eliminating and v.
Solve this equation for Vas a function of x, and d. Plot , and compare it to the potential without space-charge. Also, find and v as functions of x.
Show that
and find the constant K. (Equation 2.56 is called the Child-Langmuir law. It holds for other geometries as well, whenever space-charge limits the current. Notice that the space-charge limited diode is nonlinear-it does not obey Ohm's law.)
Calculate the divergence of the following vector functions:
Two spheres, each of radius R and carrying uniform volume charge densities +p and -p , respectively, are placed so that they partially overlap (Fig. 2.28). Call the vector from the positive center to the negative center d. Show that the field in the region of overlap is constant, and find its value. [Hint: Use the answer to Prob. 2.12.]
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