Static Electric Fields in

Material Media Lecture-8

Isolated conductor
under the influence
of an applied field

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 Conductor-free space
interface

Conductor (E = 0)
h d
c

Application = Electrostatic
screening/shielding
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Example:
Spherical Conducting Shell

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 Dielectrics in Static Electric
Field Lecture-9

How dielectrics behave differently than conductor under static electric field ?

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 N

Q d k k
P = Lim k 1
 np
v 0 v

Polarization vector P is defined as the electric dipole moment

per unit volume of the dielectric.
Polar dielectrics

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 Macroscopic Effect of Induced
Dipole
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Q d
k 1
k k
P = Lim
v 0 v

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 Field due to a polarized dielectric

1  P  '.P 
V    '.   dv '  dv '
40 V '  R  V'
R 

1 P.a 'n 1   '.P 

V
40 S ' R ds ' 40 V' R dv '

1  ps 1  pv
V
40 
S'
R
ds ' 
40 V ' R
dv '  ps  P.aˆn
 pv  .P
A polarized dielectric may be replaced by an equivalent
polarization surface charge density and an equivalent
polarization volume charge density for field calculations.
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Field due to a polarized
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Electric Flux Density

Consider the case in which the dielectric region contains

free charge

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Dielectric Constant

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