A Novel Variational Principle in Electrostatics and its Consequences
Classical Physics
2014-08-01 v1
Abstract
We propose a novel variational principle in electrostatics and show that one can derive mirror equation in the context of image problem starting from this principle. The corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation is seen to lead to Green's differential equation (also known as Thomson's equation).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.8285,
title = {A Novel Variational Principle in Electrostatics and its Consequences},
author = {Kolahal Bhattacharya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.8285},
year = {2014}
}