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(a) Assuming there are no other conductors around, nd the capacitance between these
concentric shells.
(b) Now a charge +q is placed inside of the inner shell. Find the potential of the outer and
inner sphere, respectively. You may assume the potential is 0 at innity.
(c) Now, we connect the outer shell to ground (i.e., 0 potential). How much energy loss or
gain do we have by doing this?
(d) After the outer shell is grounded, we then connect a resistor R in between the inner and
outer shells to short them out. What will be the total energy dissipated in the resistor after
a long time has passed?
(e) In (d) above, assuming the resistor is connected at t = 0, nd the current owing in the
resistor, I(t), as a function of time.
Problem 2:
Consider two concentric conducting rings whose radii are a and b, respectively. The centers
of the rings are at the origin and the rings are placed in x y plane as shown below.
(a) The inner ring has a total charge +Q and the outer ring also has a total charge +Q.
Find the electric potential at the origin.
(b) In (a), now suppose that the two rings are rotating around z-axis with the same angular
velocity . What is the magnetic eld at the origin?
(c) Assuming b a, what is the mutual inductance between the rings?
(d) Now assume that there is a time dependent current I(t) = I0 cos(t) in the inner ring.
Find the induced EMF in the outer ring.
(e) In this problem we consider, we consider a constant current I0 in the outer ring. The
inner ring starts to rotate around x-axis with angular speed 0 (note that this is orthogonal
to the magnetic eld direction). Find the EMF induced in the inner ring.
Problem 3:
Consider an innitely long thin shell of a charged cylinder with radius R. The cylinder
carries a surface charge density .
(a) The cylinder is rotating around its axis with an increasing angular velocity = Ct with
time t. What is the magnetic eld everywhere (both inside and outside of the cylinder)? In
this part of problem, we will not consider the relativistic correction (i.e., R c).
(b) What is the electric eld everywhere (both inside and outside of the cylinder)? Again,
in this part of problem, we will not consider the relativistic correction (i.e., R c).
(c) Consider an cylindrical volume with length L and radius r < R inside the charged
cylinder. The volume is coaxial with the charged cylinder above. From the result in (a) and
(b), nd the rate at which electromagnetic energy ows into this cylindrical volume, and
show that it equals the rate of change of the energy stored in the magnetic eld.
(d) Now, instead of rotating, the cylinder is moving along the axis with a constant linear
velocity v0 . Find the rate at which electromagnetic energy ows per area at the surface of
the cylinder.
(e) Discuss what is the relativistic eect in (a-d) above, i.e., R . c or v0 . c. You do not
have to calculate the eect quantitatively. A short qualitative description would be enough.
Problem 4:
An inductor of inductance L and capacitor of capacitance C are connected to each other as
shown in the gure below. Initially at time t = 0, there is no current in the circuit and the
voltage reading between a and b is V0
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(d) In (c), what is the average power dissipated in the circuit? Express your answer using
V0 , L, C and Rs .
(e) Instead of connecting the circuit to an AC source, we now consider a time varying external
magnetic eld applied along the axial direction of the solenoid. If the time varying external
magnetic eld is given by B(t) = B0 sin(t), nd the maximum current in the circuit as a
function of B0 and .
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Problem 5:
Answer the following questions as True or False. Write out the words True and False. No
justication is required.
(a) Coulombs law is always true.
(b) The gravitational force between two protons is completely negligible compared to the
Coulomb force between them.
(c) The force on a patch of a surface charge distribution can be obtained by adding the eld
just inside and outside of the patch multiplied by the charge.
(d) In empty space, the average value of the electric potential over the surface of any sphere
is equal to the value of the potential at the center of the sphere.
(e) It is impossible to construct an electrostatic eld that will hold a charged particle in
stable equilibrium.
The gure below is depicting a vector eld for (f ) and (g)
(f ) The vector elds above can be an electric eld (including electrodynamic contributions).
(g) The vector elds above can be a magnetic eld (including electrodynamic contributions).
(h) A network of resistors that has two external leads can always be reduced into an equivalent single resistor.
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(i) Two parallel wires carrying current in the same direction repel each other.
(j) An isolated point charge gives you the same amount of charge regardless of the inertial
frame you are in.
(k) An electric eld generated by a moving charge has maximum intensity in the direction
parallel with the velocity.
(l) In free space, the direction of electro magnetic wave propagation is always orthogonal to
the eld directions.
(m) A magnetic eld can do work on a point charge.
(n) The power dissipation in an AC circuit always occurs in the resistors.
(o) Magnetization increases the magnetic eld inside of ferromagnetic materials.