Engineering Electromagnetics

Lecture 4

Dr.-Ing. Erwin Sitompul

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Application of Gauss’s Law: Differential Volume Element

 We are now going to apply the methods of Gauss’s law to a
slightly different type of problem: a surface without symmetry.
 We have to choose such a very small closed surface that D is
almost constant over the surface, and the small change in D
may be adequately represented by using the first two terms of
the Taylor’s-series expansion for D.
 The result will become more nearly correct as the volume
enclosed by the Gaussian surface decreases. We intend
eventually to allow this volume to approach zero.

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Application of Gauss’s Law: Differential Volume Element

 Consider any point P, located by a
rectangular coordinate system.
 The value of D at the point P may be
expressed in rectangular components:
D0  Dx 0a x  Dy 0a y  Dz 0a z

 We now choose as our closed surface,

the small rectangular box, centered at P,
having sides of lengths Δx, Δy, and Δz,
and apply Gauss’s law:
 D  dS  Q
S

 D  dS  
S front

back
 
left right
 
top bottom

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Application of Gauss’s Law: Differential Volume Element

 We will now consider the front surface
in detail.
 The surface element is very small, thus
D is essentially constant over this
surface (a portion of the entire closed
surface):
front
Dfront  Sfront
Dfront  yz a x
Dx ,front yz
 The front face is at a distance of Δx/2 from P, and therefore:
x
Dx ,front Dx 0   rate of change of Dx with x
2
x Dx
Dx 0 
2 x

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Application of Gauss’s Law: Differential Volume Element

 We have now, for front surface:
 x Dx 
front  Dx 0 
 2 x
 yz

 In the same way, the integral over the back surface can be
found as:
back
Dback  Sback
Dback  (yz a x )
 Dx ,back yz

x Dx
Dx ,back Dx 0 
2 x
 x Dx 
back


 x0D 
2 x
 yz


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Application of Gauss’s Law: Differential Volume Element

 If we combine the two integrals over the front and back surface,
we have:
Dx

front
  back x
xyz

 Repeating the same process to the remaining surfaces, we find:

Dy

right
  left y
yxz

Dz

top
 
bottom z
zxy

 These results may be collected to yield:

 Dx Dy Dz 
 S D  dS  x  y  z  xyz
 Dx Dy Dz 
 S D  dS  Q  x  y  z  v
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Application of Gauss’s Law: Differential Volume Element

 The previous equation is an approximation, which becomes
better as Δv becomes smaller, and in the following section the
volume Δv will be let to approach zero.
 For the moment, we have applied Gauss’s law to the closed
surface surrounding the volume element Δv.
 The result is the approximation stating that:
 Dx Dy Dz 
Charge enclosed in volume v      v
 x y z 

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Application of Gauss’s Law: Differential Volume Element

 Example
Let D = y2z3 ax + 2xyz3 ay + 3xy2z2 az nC/m2 in free space.
(a) Find the total electric flux passing through the surface x = 3,
0 ≤ y ≤ 2, 0 ≤ z ≤ 1 in a direction away from the origin. (b) Find
|E| at P(3,2,1). (c) Find an approximate value for the total
charge contained in an incremental sphere having a radius of 2
mm centered at P(3,2,1).

(a) ψ  S DS  dS
 x z a z    dydz a x 
1 2
  y 2 3
z a  2 xyz 3
a y  3 xy 2 2
z 0 y 0 x 3
1 2
  y 2 z 3dydz
0 0
2 1 1
 y1
3
3
z 4
0 4 0

 23 nC

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Application of Gauss’s Law: Differential Volume Element

(b) D = y 2 z3a x  2xyz3a y  3xy 2 z 2a z
DP = (2)2 (1)3 a x  2(3)(2)(1)3 a y  3(3)(2)2 (1)2 a z
= 4a x  12a y  36a z nC m2

DP = DP  (4)2  (12)2  (36)2

 38.158nC m2

DP
EP 
0
38.158 nC m 2

8.854 1012
 4.31 kV m

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Application of Gauss’s Law: Differential Volume Element

(c) Q  Dx  Dy  Dz  v
 
 x y z 
 Dx Dy Dz 
QP     v
 x y z  P

 0  2 xz 3
 6 xy 2 z  x 3 nC m3  43  (2 103 )3 m3
y 2
z 1

 0  2(3)(1) 3
 6(3)(2) 2
(1)  3  (2 103 )3 nC
 4

2.611015 C

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Divergence
 We shall now obtain an exact relationship, by allowing the
volume element Δv to shrink to zero.
 Dx Dy Dz 
 
 D  dS

Q
 
S

 x y z  v v


 Dx Dy Dz 
 
 D  dS Q
   lim  lim
S

 x y z  v0 v v 0 v

 The last term is the volume charge density ρv, so that:

 Dx Dy Dz 
 
 D  dS
 v
   lim
S

 x y z  v0 v

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Divergence
 Let us no consider one information that can be obtained from
the last equation:
 Dx Dy Dz 
 
 D  dS
   lim
S

 x y z  v 0 v

 This equation is valid not only for electric flux density D, but
also to any vector field A to find the surface integral for a small
closed surface.
 Ax Ay Az 
 
 A  dS
   lim
S

 x y z  v0 v

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Divergence
 This operation received a descriptive name, divergence. The
divergence of A is defined as:

Divergence of A  div A  lim

 S
A  dS
v 0 v
“The divergence of the vector flux density A is the
outflow of flux from a small closed surface per unit
volume as the volume shrinks to zero.”

 A positive divergence of a vector quantity indicates a source of

that vector quantity at that point.
 Similarly, a negative divergence indicates a sink.

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Divergence
Dx Dy Dz
div D    Rectangular
x y z

1  1 D Dz
div D  (  D )   Cylindrical
    z

1  2 1  1 D
div D  2 (r Dr )  (sin  D )  Spherical
r r r sin   r sin  

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Divergence
 Example
If D = e–xsiny ax – e–x cosy ay + 2z az, find div D at the origin
and P(1,2,3).

Dx Dy Dz

div D     e x sin y  e x sin y  2 2
x y z

Regardless of location the divergence of D equals 2 C/m3.

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Maxwell’s First Equation (Electrostatics)

 We may now rewrite the expressions developed until now:

div D  lim
 S
D  dS
v 0 v
Dx D Dy
div D    z
x y z
Maxwell’s First Equation
div D  v Point Form of Gauss’s Law

 This first of Maxwell’s four equations applies to electrostatics

and steady magnetic field.
 Physically it states that the electric flux per unit volume leaving
a vanishingly small volume unit is exactly equal to the volume
charge density there.

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Homework 4
 D3.6.
 D3.7.
 D3.8.

 For D3.6., Replace P(2,–1,3) with P(StID,–1,StID+3).

StID is the last two digits of your Student ID Number.
Example: Someone with the Student ID of 002201700006
will do D3.6 with P(6,–1,9).

 All homework problems from Hayt and Buck, 7th Edition.

 Due: Tuesday, 19 April 2016.

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