MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Physics Department Physics 8.07: Electromagnetism II November 21, 2012 Prof. Alan Guth QUIZ 2 SOLUTIONS QUIZ DATE: NOVEMBER 15, 2012
PROBLEM 1: THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF A SPINNING, UNIFORMLY CHARGED SPHERE (25 points) This problem is based on Problem 1 of Problem Set 8.
A uniformly charged solid sphere of radius R carries a total charge Q,andisset spinning with angular velocity ω about the z axis. (a) (10 points) What is the magnetic dipole moment of the sphere? (b) (5 points) Using the dipole approximation, what is the vector potential A(r)atlarge distances? (Remember that A is a vector, so it is not enough to merely specify its magnitude.) (c) (10 points) Find the exact vector potential INSIDE the sphere. You may, if you wish, make use of the result of Example 5.11 from Griffiths’ book. There he considered a spherical shell, of radius R, carrying a uniform surface charge σ, spinning at angular velocity ω directed along the z axis. He found the vector potential µ Rωσ 0 r sin θ φ,ˆ (if r ≤ R) 3 A(r, θ, φ)= (1.1) µ R4ωσ sin θ 0 φ,ˆ (if r ≥ R). 3 r2
PROBLEM 1 SOLUTION:
(a) A uniformly charged solid sphere of radius R carries a total charge Q, hence it has 4 3 charge density ρ = Q/( 3 πR ). To find the magnetic moment of sphere we can divide the sphere into infinitesimal charges. Using spherical polar coordinates, we can take dq = ρ dτ = ρr2 dr sin θ dθ dφ, with the contribution to the dipole moment given by 1 × dm = 2r J dτ. One method would be to write down the volume integral directly, using J = ρv = ρω × r. We can, however, integrate over φ before we start, so we are breaking the sphere into rings, where a given ring is indicated by its coordinates r and θ, and its size dr and dθ. The volume of each ring is dτ =2πr2 dr sin θ dθ.The current dI in the ring is given by dq/T ,whereT =2π/ω is the period, so
dq ωρdτ dI = = = ωρr2 dr sin θ dθ. (1.2) T 2π 8.07 QUIZ 2 SOLUTIONS, FALL 2012 p. 2
The magnetic dipole moment of each ring is then given by 1 1 2 2 dm ring = r × J dτ = dI r × d =dI(πr sin θ)ˆz. (1.3) 2 ring 2 ring
The total magnetic dipole moment is then m = ωρr2 sin θ (πr2 sin2 θ)dr dθ zˆ
R π = πωρ r4 dr (1 − cos2 θ)sinθ dθ zˆ 0 0
QR5 4 1 = πω = QωR2 z.ˆ (1.4) 4 3 3 πR 5 3 5
(b) The vector potential in dipole approximation is,
µ m × r µ |m | sin θ µ QωR2 sin θ A =0 = 0 φˆ = 0 φ.ˆ (1.5) 4π r3 4π r2 4π 5 r2
(c) To calculate the exact vector potential inside the sphere, we split the sphere into shells. Let r be the integration variable and the radius of a shell, moreover let dr denote the thickness of the shell. Then we can use the results of Example 5.11 (pp. 236-37) in Griffiths, if we replace σ by its value for this case. The value of σ is found equating charges Q σ(4πr 2)= (4πr 2)dr (1.6) 4 3 3 πR and therefore we must replace
Q σ → dr . 4 3 3 πR Making this replacement in Griffiths’ Eq. (5.67), quoted above as Eq. (1.1), we now have r r if r