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ASSIGNMENT 2
1. Four 0.8 nC point charges are located in free space at the corners of a square 4 cm on a side. a) Find the total potential energy stored b) A fifth 0.8C charge is installed at the center of the square. Again find the total stored energy 0.779J, 1.59J 2. Given the potential field in free space, V = 80 V .find: a) The energy stored in the region 2 < < 4 cm, 0 < < 0.2, 0 < z < 1 m b) the potential difference, VAB, for A(3 cm, = 0, z = 0) and B(3cm, 0.2, 1m): c) the maximum value of the energy density in the specified region 12.3 nJ, 16 V, 71 J/m3 3. A potential field in free space is expressed as V

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a) Find the total energy stored within the cube 1 < x, y, z < 2 b) What value would be obtained by assuming a uniform energy density equal to the value at the center of the cube? 4. If V = 2z sin (), calculate the energy within the region defined by 1 < < 4, -2 < z < 2, 0< < /3. 5. If the earth is regarded a spherical capacitor, what is its capacitance? Assume the radius of the earth to be approximately 6350 km. 6. A parallel-plate capacitor has its plates at x = 0, d and the space between the plates is filled with an inhomogeneous material with permittivity = o( 1 + x/d ). If the plate at x = d is maintained at V0 while the plate at x = 0 is grounded, find: V and E 7. A cylindrical capacitor with inner radius a and outer radius b is filled with an inhomogeneous dielectric having =ok/ p, where k is a constant. Calculate the capacitance per unit length of the capacitance. 8. A spherical capacitor has inner radius a and outer radius b and filled with an inhomogeneous dielectric with =ok/ r2. Find the capacitance of the capacitor. 9. Region 1 (z < 0) contains a dielectric for which r1 = 2.5, while region 2 (z > 0) is characterized by r2= 4. Let E1= -30x + 50 y + 70z V/m and find: a) D2 , b) The angle between E1 and the normal to the surface. 10. Two homogeneous dielectric regions 1 ( < 4 cm) and 2 ( > 4 cm) have dielectric constants 3.5 and 1.5, respectively. If D2 == 12- 6 + 9z nC/m2 , calculate: a) E1 and D1 b) The energy density for each region.