2009
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/30/3/019
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The electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged ring

Abstract: When faced with mathematical methods, undergraduate students have difficulty in grasping the reality of various approaches and special functions. It is only when they take a more specialized course such as classical electromagnetism that they finally see the connection. A problem that we believe illustrates very well the depth and variety of methods to be employed in a realistic physics situation is the calculation of the off-axis electrostatic potential created by a single uniformly charged ring. By using two… Show more

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“…Such an energy depends only on the separation distance between the respective centers, r c of the two rings. We have succeeded to calculate the electrostatic potential energy between two co-planar uniformly charged rings starting from the expression of the electrostatic potential created by a ring [41] in its 2D plane, (ρ, z = 0) (in polar coordinates).…”
Section: Semi-classical Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such an energy depends only on the separation distance between the respective centers, r c of the two rings. We have succeeded to calculate the electrostatic potential energy between two co-planar uniformly charged rings starting from the expression of the electrostatic potential created by a ring [41] in its 2D plane, (ρ, z = 0) (in polar coordinates).…”
Section: Semi-classical Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Assuming rotationally-symmetric charge distributions, their (phasor) electric scalarpotential at a field point defined by the position-vector r = xux + zuz (where ux and uz are the unit vectors of the Cartesian coordinate system) is given by [21] …”
Section: Integral Equationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Note that only for κ = 0 (and along the z axis) can the integral in Eq. (7) be evaluated in terms of known special functions [68]. For the general case, the integral can be numerically computed on a desktop PC within seconds.…”
Section: B Charged Torimentioning
confidence: 99%