Image Charges Re-Imagined
Classical Physics
2018-12-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
We discuss the grounded, equipotential ellipse in two-dimensional electrostatics to illustrate different ways of extending the domain of the potential and placing image charges such that homogeneous boundary conditions are satisfied. In particular, we compare and contrast the Kelvin and Sommerfeld image methods.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.08300,
title = {Image Charges Re-Imagined},
author = {H Alshal and T Curtright and S Subedi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08300},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
One example and two Appendices added