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For a static electric field Faraday's law becomes
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(5.4) |
where
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(5.5) |
(5.5) reduces to (3.4) when
is a constant.
(5.4) is satisfied identically when
.
Then, when there is no charge density (
) and
is constant, (5.5) becomes
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(5.6) |
Hence, we must again solve Laplace's equation.
Prof. Alan Hood
2000-11-06