Power Series Coefficients B
- assignment Line Sources Using Coulomb's Law
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Line Sources Using Coulomb's Law
Static Fields 2023 (6 years)- Find the electric field around a finite, uniformly charged, straight rod, at a point a distance \(s\) straight out from the midpoint, starting from Coulomb's Law.
- Find the electric field around an infinite, uniformly charged, straight rod, starting from the result for a finite rod.
- assignment Power Series Coefficients A
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Power Series Coefficients A
Static Fields 2023 (6 years) Use the formula for a Taylor series: \[f(z)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n!} \frac{d^n f(a)}{dz^n} (z-a)^n\] to find the series expansion for \(f(z)=e^{-kz}\) to second order around \(z=3\). - assignment Volume Charge Density
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Volume Charge Density
Static Fields 2023 (6 years)Sketch the volume charge density: \begin{equation} \rho (x,y,z)=c\,\delta (x-3) \end{equation}
- assignment Series Notation 2
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Series Notation 2
Static Fields 2023 (6 years)Write (a good guess for) the following series using sigma \(\left(\sum\right)\) notation. (If you only know a few terms of a series, you don't know for sure how the series continues.)
\[1 - 2\,\theta^2 + 4\,\theta^4 - 8\,\theta^6 +\,\dots\]
- \[\frac14 - \frac19 + \frac{1}{16} - \frac{1}{25}+\,\dots\]
- assignment Spherical Shell Step Functions
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Spherical Shell Step Functions
step function charge density Static Fields 2023 (6 years)One way to write volume charge densities without using piecewise functions is to use step \((\Theta)\) or \(\delta\) functions. If you need to review this, see the following link in the math-physics book: https://paradigms.oregonstate.eduhttps://books.physics.oregonstate.edu/GMM/step.html
Consider a spherical shell with charge density \(\rho (\vec{r})=\alpha3e^{(k r)^3}\) between the inner radius \(a\) and the outer radius \(b\). The charge density is zero everywhere else. Use step functions to write this charge density as a single function valid everywhere in space.
- assignment Divergence
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Divergence
Static Fields 2023 (6 years)
Shown above is a two-dimensional vector field.
Determine whether the divergence at point A and at point C is positive, negative, or zero.
- computer Visualising the Gradient
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Visualising the Gradient
Static Fields 2023 (6 years) Students use prepared Sage code to predict the gradient from contour graphs of 2D scalar fields. - assignment Curl
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Curl
Static Fields 2023 (6 years)
Shown above is a two-dimensional cross-section of a vector field. All the parallel cross-sections of this field look exactly the same. Determine the direction of the curl at points A, B, and C.
- assignment Series Notation 1
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Series Notation 1
Static Fields 2023 (6 years)Write out the first four nonzero terms in the series:
\[\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{n!}\]
- \[\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty \frac{(-1)^n}{n!}\]
- \begin{equation} \sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty {(-2)^{n}\,\theta^{2n}} \end{equation}
- assignment Volume Charge Density, Version 2
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Volume Charge Density, Version 2
charge density delta function Static Fields 2023 (6 years)You have a charge distribution on the \(x\)-axis composed of two point charges: one with charge \(+3q\) located at \(x=-d\) and the other with charge \(-q\) located at \(x=+d\).
- Sketch the charge distribution.
- Write an expression for the volume charge density \(\rho (\vec{r})\) everywhere in space.
- Static Fields 2023 (6 years) Use the formula for a Taylor series: \[f(z)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n!} \frac{d^n f(a)}{dz^n} (z-a)^n\] to find the series expansion for \(f(z)=\cos(kz)\) to second order around \(z=2\).