TALLER ELECTROMAGNETISMO

1. The plates of a capacitor are separated a distance d [m] and grounded as in Figure 1. The
dielectric between the plates has permittivity [F/m],
and a volume charge density

= 0 x (xd)

[C/m3] is distributed throughout the volume of the

dielectric. Find the potential and electric field intensity
everywhere between the plates of the capacitor.
What is the electric field intensity and the electric potential outside the plates?
2. If the charge distribution in a cloud can be estimated, the electric field intensity can be calculated
everywhere, assuming the ground to be a conductor. As a simple example of this type of problem,
we consider here a spherical charge distribution as an approximation to a cloud. A spherical cloud
has a uniform negative volume charge density

[C/m3] and is located above ground, as

shown in Figure. The dimensions and charge density are shown in the figure:
(a) Calculate the electric field intensity everywhere at ground level.
(b) What is the largest electric field intensity at ground level? Where does it occur?
3. A line of charge with uniform charge density

[C/m] and length d [m] is placed at a height h [m]

above a thick conducting plane, as shown in Figure:

(a) Calculate the electric potential everywhere in space.
(b) Calculate the electric field intensity at the surface of the conducting
plane, below the center of the wire.

4. A hollow cube with conducting surfaces is given in figure.

Five of the walls are at zero potential, whereas the wall at z =c [m]
insulated from the others and connected to a constant potential
V =V0 [V]. Calculate the potential everywhere inside the box.

5. An electrostatic precipitator is a device designed to collect both

positively and negatively charged ash in the stack of a power
plant. The stack is high and is built as shown in Figure. The
central conductor is in the form of a mesh to allow particles to
move around. With the dimensions and potentials as given,
calculate the potential distribution everywhere in the stack.
6
Find the potential when a neutral, long
conducting circular cylinder is placed in an
initially uniform electric field with its axis
perpendicular to the field.

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Two conducting coaxial cones with vertex at the origin and apex angles 1 and 2 are isolated
from each other. The inner and outer cones have potential V 1 and V2, respectively. Find the
potential between the cones.

8
A cylindrical pipe (Figure) of radius a is sawn lengthwise into two equal halves. A battery
connected between the two halves establishes a potential difference of V 0 between the two halves. Use
separation of variables to find the potential inside and outside the pipe.

9. A conducting sphere of radius a with its center at the origin is

into two halves at the x-y plane. The two halves are separated
slightly, and the top half is charged to V 0 while the bottom half
charged to V0. Find the potential both interior to the sphere and
exterior to the sphere.

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10. A hollow spherical shell carries charge density (, ) = 0

sin . Calculate the potential both inside and outside the sphere

sin

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11 A hollow spherical shell has surface charge 0 cos

distributed on its surface. Find the electro-static potential and electric field due to this distribution both
inside and outside the sphere.
In order to realize some exercises by considering dielectric materials you can solve the problems
proposed in chapter 8 of Electricity and Magnetism by Oleg D. Jefimenko.