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Phy501, HW2 Due Date: 20th October

This document provides the homework problems for Phy501 that are due on October 20th. It notes that the first midterm exam will be held on October 23rd in class. The homework problems cover a range of topics involving vector potentials, magnetic fields generated by different current distributions using Biot-Savart and Ampere's laws, Green's functions, and time-dependent Maxwell's equations. Several optional practice problems are also listed at the end.

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Phy501, HW2 Due Date: 20th October

This document provides the homework problems for Phy501 that are due on October 20th. It notes that the first midterm exam will be held on October 23rd in class. The homework problems cover a range of topics involving vector potentials, magnetic fields generated by different current distributions using Biot-Savart and Ampere's laws, Green's functions, and time-dependent Maxwell's equations. Several optional practice problems are also listed at the end.

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Phy501, HW2

Due Date: 20th October

Note: The First Midterm will be held on 23rd October in the class.
Problems

1. A constant magnetic field is applied so that is points along the z axis, i.e. B = Bz.

(a) Verify that the following two are acceptable vector potentials for this field: (i)
A = xB y, (ii) A = 0.5(xB y yB x).

(b) Find the guage transformation that connects these two potentials given in part
(a).

(c) Verify that the following are also acceptable potentials: (i) A = 0.5rB in cylin-
drical coordinates, (ii) A = 0.5r sin B in spherical coordinates.

(d) Find a potential of your own that gives the same magnetic field as above. Your
potential should be different than provided in parts (a) and (c).

2. A vector potential is given by A = 0.5Brz in cylindrical coordinates. Find the


magnetic field.

3. Consider an infinitely long cylindrical conductor along the z axis and of radius a such
that the z axis lies at the center of the the cylinder. The cylinder carries a uniform
current density J = Jz.

(a) Use Amperes law to find the magnetic field inside and outside the conductor.

(b) Find an acceptable vector potential that gives this magnetic field.

4. Use BiotSavart law to find the magnetic field at the center of a square loop of wire
with sides of length a and a current I though the loop.

5. Use BiotSavart law to find the magnetic field at the point (0, 0, z) for a circular loop
of wire lying in the xy plane with center at the origin and carrying current I. Find
the expression of the field that is valid at every point on the z axis, and not just the
origin.

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6. In a region, we have electric and magnetic field given by

E = et

and
et
B= z .
x2 + y 2
(a) Verify that the fields satisfy the time-dependent Maxwell equations.

(b) What is the current density that is producing these fields?

7. Mimicking the Fourier transform method used in the class, find the scalar Green
function for the Helmholtz equation, that is, solve the following equation

(2 + k 2 )G(r, r0 ) = (r r0 )

and show that the solution is


exp(ik|r r0 |)
G(r, r0 ) = .
4|r r0 |

8. (a) Using the Greens function for an oscillator that we derived in the class, find out
what is the motion of the oscillator with natural frequency o . The oscillator
was initially at rest and an impulse is applied every 2/o seconds, 21 times.
Especially, comment on the amplitude after all the impulses have passed. (Hint:
You can take the force to be of the form of a finite series with terms like (t tn ),
n = 0, 1, 2, ..., 20, and tn = 2n/o .

(b) Describe the final motion (after all the impulses have passed) if the force is of
the form
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X
f (t) = (t n/o ) ,
n=0

that is, an impulse is applied after every /o seconds for the same amount of
total time.

9. Find the magnetic field of a very long solenoid consisting of N turns per unit length
(tightly wound) inside and outside the solenoid using Amperes law.

10. Consider a parallel plate capacitor with large circular plates with very small separation,
connected to a current source that supplies a steady current I. When the current starts

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flowing, opposite charges on the plates begin to pile up on the plates. Now consider a
circular Amperian loop C around the wire carrying the current to the plates.

(a) Imagine that the loop is an opening of a balloon that encloses one of the plates
completely and does not cross any wire or the other plate. Now, apply the time-
dependent Amperes law to compute the following integral:
I
B d` ,
C

(b) Now, imagine that the same loop C is an opening of a different balloon which
intersects the wire and does not encloses or pass through any of the plate. Com-
pute the above integral again and show that it turns out to be same as in part
(a).

(c) Now, imagine yet another balloon that still has the same opening C but now
encloses both the plates completely crosses the wire connected to the opposite
plate. Again show that the above integral is the same.

To compute the electric field inside the plates, you can assume that the electric field
is the same as if the plates are stretching to infinitely, that is, you can take the field
between the finite plates as the field between two parallel infinite sheets of opposite
charge. Also, to compute the integral, use the full form of Amperes law, the one that
contains the displacement current term added by Maxwell.

Optional Practice questions Do problems 2.10, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 5.41, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5,
and 10.7.

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