Charges and Electrostatics

The following sections are included:

• Basic Phenomena

  • The Superposition Principle

  • The Symmetry Principle

• Units

  • The Electrostatic System of Units (ESU)

  • The International System of Units (SI)

• The Gauss Flux Theorem and the First Maxwell Equation

• Singular and General Charge Distributions

• Some Potential Theory

• Properties of Spherical Harmonics

  • Normalization

  • Orthogonality

  • Symmetry

  • Examples

  • Legendre Polynomials, Pι (cosθ)

• The Mean Value Theorem

• Conductors and Insulators

• General Electrostatic Problems

  • Dirichlet Boundary Value Problem

  • Neumann Boundary Value Problem

• Forces and the Stress Tensor

• The Field Energy

• Earnshaw's Theorem

• Thompson's Theorem

• Polarization

• Field Energy in a Dielectric with Constant K

• Field Energy in a Dielectric for Which K = K(x)

• Forces on a Dielectric

• The Stress Tensor

• Capacitance

• CHAPTER 2 EXERCISES