PHY2323 Assignment 3 Solutions
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PHY2323 Assignment 3 Solutions
A:
With the provided information there are multiple equivalent pathways to determine the energy .
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No matter how you arrange your final equation, finding the electric field/Charge is a first easily done using Gauss with a spherical surface inside the capacitor
∯
∗
∙
⃗
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The end result of this is
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2
=
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2 =
= 1 ∗ 10−11
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Using the
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version, this is a spherical volume so dv =
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step, which is
After simplifying and integrating the trivial phi and theta integrals
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= ∫
= ( ( − ))
Subbing in the values of Q, a and b we find the energy in the capacitor to be
= 5.5 ∗ 10−10
Using the W =
version, we need to find the potential
Δ
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= ∫ = 110. 1
Subbing in the values of Q and V, we find again that
= 5.5 ∗ 10−10
B:
Finding the capacitance of the capacitor is most easily done using C = Q/V, especially if you had already
found V in the previous question
The expression for Δ
using the work done in the previous question is
(
(
−
))
This gives us
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0
2
2 = 9 ∗ 10−14
The other way you can calculate the capacitance of a capacitor is with the equation
=
For a spherical capacitor this can be estimated to
=
Unfortunately, in this case the
varies by r making this equivalent to many capacitors in series, making this calculation much trickier and not recommended.
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A:
This question requires the use of the Laplace equation ∇
= 0 to find the electric potential. As this is a sphere, we use the spherical laplace, and only the
vector changes, giving
(
2 ) = 0
To isolate V we need to integrate twice
After the first
(
2
) =
1
After the second
= − +
2
Which is the solution given in the question
We can now begin to use out boundary conditions
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At r = b V = 0
Using V = 0, we can find that
2 =
Using ,
=
0 we then have
0 =
+
so
1 =
So finally
=
0 (1 − 1) which can be rearranged to give
=
B:
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0 (1 −
)
This is a spherical geometry, and only
matters, so the derivative in respect to r is
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C:
With the electric field, we can use Gauss to find the contained charge, and then the surface charge density
∯
∗
∙
⃗
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The integrations just give the area of a sphere of radius a, so
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2
This gives the boundary condition of an electric field near a conductor
=
=
The total charge is the charge density with the area of the inner sphere
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04
(
−
)
D:
We have the expression for Q, the ∆
= The capacitance is simply
0 and the capacitance can be found with C = Q/V
4
(
−
)
When the distance between b and a is small, you can estimate this as
= which is the spherical
equivalent of
=
2022-04-01