Classical Electromagnetic Theory Second Edition http://avaxhome.ws/blogs/ChrisRedfield Fundamental Theories of Physics An International Book Series on The Fundamental Theories of Physics: Their Clarification, Development and Application Editor: ALWYN VAN DER MERWE, University of Denver, U.S.A. Editorial Advisory Board: GIANCARLO GHIRARDI, University of Trieste, Italy LAWRENCE P. HORWITZ, Tel-Aviv University, Israel BRIAN D. JOSEPHSON, University of Cambridge, U.K. CLIVE KILMISTER, University of London, U.K. PEKKA J. LAHTI, University of Turku, Finland ASHER PERES, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel EDUARD PRUGOVECKI, University of Toronto, Canada FRANCO SELLERI, Università di Bara, Italy TONY SUDBERY, University of York, U.K. HANS-JÜRGEN TREDER, Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany Volume145 Classical Electromagnetic Theory Second Edition by Jack Vanderlinde University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK,BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW eBookISBN: 1-4020-2700-1 Print ISBN: 1-4020-2699-4 ©2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. Print ©2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht All rights reserved No part of this eBook maybe reproducedor transmitted inanyform or byanymeans,electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the Publisher Created in the United States of America Visit Springer's eBookstore at: http://ebooks.springerlink.com and the Springer Global Website Online at: http://www.springeronline.com Preface In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) This book is a second edition of “Classical Electromagnetic Theory” which derived from a set of lecture notes compiled over a number of years of teaching electro- magnetic theory to fourth year physics and electrical engineering students. These students had a previous exposure to electricity and magnetism, and the material from the first four and a half chapters was presented as a review. I believe that the book makes a reasonable transition between the many excellent elementary books such as Griffith’s Introduction to Electrodynamics and the obviously graduate level books such as Jackson’s Classical Electrodynamics or Landau and Lifshitz’ Electro- dynamics of Continuous Media. If the students have had a previous exposure to Electromagnetictheory,allthematerialcanbereasonablycoveredintwosemesters. Neophytes should probable spend a semester on the first four or five chapters as well as, depending on their mathematical background, the Appendices B to F. For a shorter or more elementary course, the material on spherical waves, waveguides, and waves in anisotropic media may be omitted without loss of continuity. InthiseditionIhaveaddedasegmentonSchwarz-Christoffeltransformationsto more fully explore conformal mappings. There is also a short heuristic segment on Cherenkov radiation and Bremstrahlung. In Appendix D there is a brief discussion of orthogonal function expansions. For greater completeness, Appendices E and F have been expanded to include the solution of the Bessel equation and Legendre’s equation as well as obtaining the generating function of each of the solutions. This material is not intended to supplant a course in mathematical methods but to provide a ready reference provide a backstop for those topics missed elsewhere. Frequently used vector identities and other useful formulas are found on the inside of the back cover and referred to inside the text by simple number (1) to (42). Addressingthecomplaint“Idon’tknowwheretostart, althoughIunderstandall the theory”, from students faced with a non-transparent problem, I have included a large number of examples of varying difficulty, worked out in detail. This edition has been enriched with a number of new examples. These examples illustrate both the theory and the techniques used in solving problems. Working through these examples should equip the student with both the confidence and the knowledge to solve realistic problems. In response to suggestions by my colleagues I have numberedallequationsforeaseofreferencingandmoreclearlydelineatedexamples from the main text. Because students appear generally much less at ease with magnetic effects than —v— vi Classical Electromagnetic Theory with electrical phenomena, the theories of electricity and magnetism are developed in parallel. From the demonstration of the underlying interconvertability of the fields in Chapter One to the evenhanded treatment of electrostatic and magneto- staticproblemstothecovariantformulation, thetreatmentemphasizestherelation between the electric and magnetic fields. No attempt has been made to follow the historical development of the theory. An extensive chapter on the solution of Laplace’s equation explores most of the techniques used in electro- and magnetostatics, including conformal mappings and separation of variable in Cartesian, cylindrical polar, spherical polar and oblate el- lipsoidal coordinates. The magnetic scalar potential is exploited in many examples to demonstrate the equivalence of methods used for the electric and magnetic po- tentials. The next chapter explores the use of image charges in solving Poisson’s equation and then introduces Green’s functions, first heuristically, then more for- mally. As always, concepts introduced are put to use in examples and exercises. A fairly extensive treatment of radiation is given in the later portions of this book. The implications of radiation reaction on causality and other limitations of the theory are discussed in the final chapter. I have chosen to sidestep much of the tedious vector algebra and vector cal- culus by using the much more efficient tensor methods, although, on the advice of colleagues, delaying their first use to chapter 4 in this edition. Although it al- most universally assumed that students have some appreciation of the concept of a tensor, in my experience this is rarely the case. Appendix B addresses this fre- quent gap with an exposition of the rudiments of tensor analysis. Although this appendix cannot replace a course in differential geometry, I strongly recommend it forself-studyorformalteachingifstudentsarenotateasewithtensors. Thelatter segments of this appendix are particularly recommended as an introduction to the tensor formulation of Special Relativity. The exercises at the end of each chapter are of varying difficulty but all should be within the ability of strong senior students. In some problems, concepts not elaboratedinthetextareexplored. Anumberofnewproblemshavebeenaddedto the text both as exercises and as examples. As every teacher knows, it is essential that students consolidate their learning by solving problems on a regular basis. A typical regimen would consist of three to five problems weekly. I have attempted to present clearly and concisely the reasoning leading to in- ferences and conclusions without excessive rigor that would make this a book in MathematicsratherthanPhysics. Pathologicalcasesaregenerallydismissed. Inan attempt to have the material transfer more easily to notes or board, I have labelled vectors by overhead arrows rather than the more usual bold face. As the material draws fairly heavily on mathematics I have strived to make the book fairly self sufficient by including much of the relevant material in appendices. Rationalized SI units are employed throughout this book, having the advantage of yielding the familiar electrical units used in everyday life. This connection to reality tends to lessen the abstractness many students impute to electromagnetic theory. It is an added advantage of SI units that it becomes easier to maintain a cleardistinctionbetweenB andH,adistinctionfrequentlylosttousersofgaussian units. Preface vii I am indebted to my students and colleagues who provided motivation for this book, and to Dr. Matti Stenroos and Dr. E.G. Jones who class tested a number of chapters and provided valuable feedback. Lastly, recognizing the unfortunate number of errata that escaped me and my proofreaders in the first edition, I have made a significantly greater effort to assure the accuracy of this edition. Jack Vanderlinde email: [email protected] This page intentionally left blank Table of Contents Chapter 1—Static Electric and Magnetic Fields in Vacuum ....1 1.1 Static Charges...............................................................1 1.1.1 The electrostatic Force ..............................................2 1.1.2 The Electric Field ...................................................5 1.1.3 Gauss’Law ..........................................................7 1.1.4 The Electric Potential .............................................11 1.2 Moving Charges ..........................................................13 1.2.1 The Continuity Equation ..........................................13 1.2.2 Magnetic Forces ...................................................14 1.2.3 The Law of Biot and Savart ........................................16 1.2.4 Amp`ere’s Law .....................................................19 1.2.5 The Magnetic Vector Potential .....................................23 1.2.6 The Magnetic Scalar Potential .....................................26 Exercises and problems .......................................................30 Chapter 2—Charge and Current Distributions ................33 2.1 Multipole Moments .......................................................33 2.1.1 The Cartesian Multipole Expansion ................................35 2.1.2 The Spherical Polar Multipole expansion ...........................40 2.2 Interactions with the Field ................................................42 2.2.1 Electric Dipoles ....................................................43 2.2.2 Magnetic Dipoles ..................................................44 2.3 Potential Energy ..........................................................45 Exercises and Problems .......................................................47 Chapter 3—Slowly Varying Fields in Vacuum ................49 3.1 Magnetic Induction .......................................................49 3.1.1 Electromotive Force ................................................49 3.1.2 Magnetically Induced Motional EMF ...............................50 3.1.3 Time-Dependent Magnetic Fields ..................................52 3.1.4 Faraday’s Law .....................................................54 3.2 Displacement Current .....................................................54 3.3 Maxwell’s Equations ......................................................57 3.4 The Potentials ............................................................58 3.4.1 The Lorentz Force and Canonical Momentum ......................59 3.4.2 Gauge Transformations ............................................60 3.5 The Wave Equation in Vacuum ............................................62 3.5.1 Plane Waves .......................................................63 3.5.2 Spherical waves ....................................................65 —ix—