• DocumentCode
    772439
  • Title

    Charge images in a dielectric sphere

  • Author

    Norris, W.T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Mech. & Electr. Eng., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
  • Volume
    142
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    495
  • Abstract
    Following the paper by the author (see ibid., vol.142, no.2, p.142-50, 1995), the comments on correspondence between himself and I. Lindell regarding the work of Carl Neumann, he after whom the familiar flux boundary condition is named. Neumann had given the solution for the image in a dielectric sphere in an appendix to a book on fluid mechanics published in Leipzig in 1883 and also that the result had been given without proof as an obiter dictum in 1985. Professor Lindell suggested that the images of charges in dielectric and diamagnetic spheres and in magnetic spheres of less than infinite permeability should be called the Neumann images. It would be helpful if the Neumann images were described in future text books on electromagnetism for they are not complicated
  • Keywords
    dielectric properties; electric charge; permeability; Neumann images; charge images; diamagnetic sphere; dielectric sphere; finite permeability; flux boundary condition; magnetic spheres;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Science, Measurement and Technology, IEE Proceedings -
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    1350-2344
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/ip-smt:19952192
  • Filename
    487641