Electricity and Magnetism For50years,EdwardM.Purcell’sclassictextbookhasintroducedstudentstotheworld ofelectricityandmagnetism.Thisthirdeditionhasbeenbroughtuptodateandisnow inSIunits.Itfeatureshundredsofnewexamples,problems,andfigures,andcontains discussionsofreal-lifeapplications. Thetextbookcoversallthestandardintroductorytopics,suchaselectrostatics,mag- netism,circuits,electromagneticwaves,andelectricandmagneticfieldsinmatter.Tak- inganontraditionalapproach,magnetismisderivedasarelativisticeffect.Mathemat- ical concepts are introduced in parallel with the physical topics at hand, making the motivationsclear.Macroscopicphenomenaarederivedrigorouslyfromtheunderlying microscopicphysics. Withworkedexamples,hundredsofillustrations,andnearly600end-of-chapterprob- lemsandexercises,thistextbookisidealforelectricityandmagnetismcourses.Solu- tionstotheexercisesareavailableforinstructorsatwww.cambridge.org/Purcell-Morin. EDWARDM. PURCELL(1912–1997)wastherecipientofmanyawardsforhisscientific, educational,andcivicwork.In1952hesharedtheNobelPrizeforPhysicsforthedis- covery of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and solids, an elegant and precise methodofdeterminingthechemicalstructureofmaterialsthatservesasthebasisfor numerousapplications,includingmagneticresonanceimaging(MRI).Duringhiscareer heservedasscienceadvisertoPresidentsDwightD.Eisenhower,JohnF.Kennedy, andLyndonB.Johnson. DAVIDJ.MORINisaLecturerandtheAssociateDirectorofUndergraduateStudiesinthe DepartmentofPhysics,HarvardUniversity.HeistheauthorofthetextbookIntroduction toClassicalMechanics(CambridgeUniversityPress,2008). THIRD EDITION ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM EDWARD M. PURCELL DAVID J. MORIN HarvardUniversity,Massachusetts CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/Purcell-Morin ©D.Purcell,F.Purcell,andD.Morin2013 ThiseditionisnotforsaleinIndia. Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. PreviouslypublishedbyMc-GrawHill,Inc.,1985 FirsteditionpublishedbyEducationDevelopmentCenter,Inc.,1963,1964,1965 FirstpublishedbyCambridgeUniversityPress2013 PrintedintheUnitedStatesbySheridanInc. AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongresscataloging-in-publicationdata Purcell,EdwardM. 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PrefacetothethirdeditionofVolume2 xiii CONTENTS PrefacetothesecondeditionofVolume2 xvii PrefacetothefirsteditionofVolume2 xxi CHAPTER1 ELECTROSTATICS:CHARGESANDFIELDS 1 1.1 Electriccharge 1 1.2 Conservationofcharge 4 1.3 Quantizationofcharge 5 1.4 Coulomb’slaw 7 1.5 Energyofasystemofcharges 11 1.6 Electricalenergyinacrystallattice 14 1.7 Theelectricfield 16 1.8 Chargedistributions 20 1.9 Flux 22 1.10 Gauss’slaw 23 1.11 Fieldofasphericalchargedistribution 26 1.12 Fieldofalinecharge 28 1.13 Fieldofaninfiniteflatsheetofcharge 29 1.14 Theforceonalayerofcharge 30 1.15 Energyassociatedwiththeelectricfield 33 1.16 Applications 35 vi CONTENTS Chaptersummary 38 Problems 39 Exercises 47 CHAPTER2 THEELECTRICPOTENTIAL 58 2.1 Lineintegraloftheelectricfield 59 2.2 Potentialdifferenceandthepotentialfunction 61 2.3 Gradientofascalarfunction 63 2.4 Derivationofthefieldfromthepotential 65 2.5 Potentialofachargedistribution 65 2.6 Uniformlychargeddisk 68 2.7 Dipoles 73 2.8 Divergenceofavectorfunction 78 2.9 Gauss’s theorem and the differential form of Gauss’slaw 79 2.10 ThedivergenceinCartesiancoordinates 81 2.11 TheLaplacian 85 2.12 Laplace’sequation 86 2.13 Distinguishingthephysicsfromthemathematics 88 2.14 Thecurlofavectorfunction 90 2.15 Stokes’theorem 92 2.16 ThecurlinCartesiancoordinates 93 2.17 Thephysicalmeaningofthecurl 95 2.18 Applications 100 Chaptersummary 103 Problems 105 Exercises 112 CHAPTER3 ELECTRICFIELDSAROUNDCONDUCTORS 124 3.1 Conductorsandinsulators 125 3.2 Conductorsintheelectrostaticfield 126 3.3 Thegeneralelectrostaticproblemandthe uniquenesstheorem 132 3.4 Imagecharges 136 3.5 Capacitanceandcapacitors 141 3.6 Potentialsandchargesonseveralconductors 147 3.7 Energystoredinacapacitor 149 3.8 Otherviewsoftheboundary-valueproblem 151 3.9 Applications 153 Chaptersummary 155 CONTENTS vii Problems 155 Exercises 163 CHAPTER4 ELECTRICCURRENTS 177 4.1 Electriccurrentandcurrentdensity 177 4.2 Steadycurrentsandchargeconservation 180 4.3 ElectricalconductivityandOhm’slaw 181 4.4 Thephysicsofelectricalconduction 189 4.5 Conductioninmetals 198 4.6 Semiconductors 200 4.7 Circuitsandcircuitelements 204 4.8 Energydissipationincurrentflow 207 4.9 Electromotiveforceandthevoltaiccell 209 4.10 Networkswithvoltagesources 212 4.11 Variablecurrentsincapacitorsandresistors 215 4.12 Applications 217 Chaptersummary 221 Problems 222 Exercises 226 CHAPTER5 THEFIELDSOFMOVINGCHARGES 235 5.1 FromOerstedtoEinstein 236 5.2 Magneticforces 237 5.3 Measurementofchargeinmotion 239 5.4 Invarianceofcharge 241 5.5 Electricfieldmeasuredindifferentframes ofreference 243 5.6 Fieldofapointchargemovingwithconstantvelocity 247 5.7 Fieldofachargethatstartsorstops 251 5.8 Forceonamovingcharge 255 5.9 Interactionbetweenamovingchargeandother movingcharges 259 Chaptersummary 267 Problems 268 Exercises 270 CHAPTER6 THEMAGNETICFIELD 277 6.1 Definitionofthemagneticfield 278 6.2 Somepropertiesofthemagneticfield 286 viii CONTENTS 6.3 Vectorpotential 293 6.4 Fieldofanycurrent-carryingwire 296 6.5 Fieldsofringsandcoils 299 6.6 ChangeinBatacurrentsheet 303 6.7 Howthefieldstransform 306 6.8 Rowland’sexperiment 314 6.9 Electricalconductioninamagneticfield: theHalleffect 314 6.10 Applications 317 Chaptersummary 322 Problems 323 Exercises 331 CHAPTER7 ELECTROMAGNETICINDUCTION 342 7.1 Faraday’sdiscovery 343 7.2 Conductingrodmovingthroughauniform magneticfield 345 7.3 Loopmovingthroughanonuniformmagneticfield 346 7.4 Stationaryloopwiththefieldsourcemoving 352 7.5 Universallawofinduction 355 7.6 Mutualinductance 359 7.7 Areciprocitytheorem 362 7.8 Self-inductance 364 7.9 Circuitcontainingself-inductance 366 7.10 Energystoredinthemagneticfield 368 7.11 Applications 369 Chaptersummary 373 Problems 374 Exercises 380 CHAPTER8 ALTERNATING-CURRENTCIRCUITS 388 8.1 Aresonantcircuit 388 8.2 Alternatingcurrent 394 8.3 Complexexponentialsolutions 402 8.4 Alternating-currentnetworks 405 8.5 Admittanceandimpedance 408 8.6 Powerandenergyinalternating-currentcircuits 415 8.7 Applications 418 Chaptersummary 420 Problems 421 Exercises 424