8 JACOB LEWIS BOURJAILY

2.13 a) We ware to compute the interior potential of a cylinder composed of two separated, conducting
halves which are kept at potentials V
1
and V
2
.
From our experience with this problem, we should expect that the potential can be
expanded as a cosine series over the azimuthal coordinate. Specically, we expect
(, ) =
0
+

m=1

m
cos(m),
where the coecients
m
are determined using the orthogonality conditions. We see
that

0
=
1
2
_
3/2
/2
(b, )d =
1
2
(V
1
+ V
2
) =
V
1
+ V
2
2
,
and, similarly,

m
=
1
b
m
_
_
/2
/2
V
1
cos(m)d + V
2
_
3/2
/2
V
2
cos(m)d
_
=
(V
1
V
2
) (1)
m
mb
m
|m (2Z + 1).
Therefore, we can use some of Jacksons tricks in elementary complex analysis to see
(, ) =
V
1
+ V
2
2
+
V
1
V
2

modd
(1)
m
m

m
b
m
cos(m),
=
V
1
+ V
2
2
+
V
1
V
2

Im
_

modd
i
m

m
e
im
mb
m
_
,
=
V
1
+ V
2
2
+
V
1
V
2

Im
_
log
_
1 + i(/b)e
i
1 i(/b)e
i
__
,
=
V
1
+ V
2
2
+
V
1
V
2

arctan
_
2/b cos
1
2
/b
2
_
,
(, ) =
V
1
+ V
2
2
+
V
1
V
2

arctan
_
2b cos
b
2

2
_
.

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b) Let us calculate the surface charge density on each half of the cylinder.
We recall that the surface charge density is given by
() =
0
(, )

=b
=
0
V
1
V
2

arctan
_
2b cos
b
2

2
_
.
Using a computer algebra package to evaluate the derivativetime becomes too
precious to evaluate by handwe see that
() =

0
(V
1
V
2
)

2b(2b
2
) cos
2b
4
+ 2b
4
cos(2)
,
=
2
0
(V
1
V
2
)

cos
b(1 + cos(2))
,
=
2
0
(V
1
V
2
)

cos
2b cos
2

,
() =

0
(V
1
V
2
)
b cos
.