Chapter 2: Q5P (page 65)
Find the electric field a distance zabove the center of a circular loop of radius (Fig. 2.9) that carries a uniform line charge
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is
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Chapter 2: Q5P (page 65)
Find the electric field a distance zabove the center of a circular loop of radius (Fig. 2.9) that carries a uniform line charge
The electric fieldat a distance zabove the center of a circular loop
is
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A conical surface (an empty ice-cream cone) carries a uniform surface charge .The height of the cone is as is the radius of the top. Find the potential difference between points (the vertex) and (the center of the top).
Find the electric field a distance zabove the center of a square loop (side a)carrying uniform line charge A (Fig. 2.8). [Hint:Use the result of Ex. 2.2.]
Find the potential inside and outside a uniformly charged solid sphere whose radius is and whose total charge is .Use infinity as your reference point. Compute the gradient of in each region, and check that it yields the correct field. Sketch.
Question: If the electric field in some region is given (in spherical coordinates)
by the expression
for some constant , what is the charge density?
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.)
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