Published November 7, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Image charge inclusions in the prolate dielectric spheroid

  • 1. Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, PO Box 368, 11001 Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro)
  • 2. Ninth High School Mihailo Petrovic Alas, Goce Delceva 41, 11001, Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro)

Description

A curious property of the electrostatic image theory for the perfectly conducting prolate spheroid, introduced in 2001, is pointed out: the potential outside the conducting spheroid remains unchanged if the conductor is replaced by a dielectric spheroid with an embedded charge which coincides with the image charge for the conducting spheroid case. The present note is a generalization of the corresponding observation about the classical Kelvin image theory for the conducting sphere, made in 1988

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0022-3727/38/3991/d5_21_025.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics (ISSN 1361-6463) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics
Journal Volume
38
Journal Issue
21
Journal Page Range
p. 3991-3994
ISSN
0022-3727
CODEN
JPAPBE

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37053874
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; IMAGES; POTENTIALS; SPHERES; SPHEROIDS
Descriptors DEC
MATERIALS