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    1) The potential inside a hollow right circular cylinder with conducting surfaces can be expressed as a double Fourier series involving Bessel functions of the first kind. 2) If the cylindrical surface is made of two half-cylinders with different potentials V and V', the coefficients of the sine terms vanish and the potential is expressed as a series involving only the cosine terms. 3) For a cylinder with half its surface at potential V and the other half at potential V', the potential inside is given by a specific double series involving ratios of Bessel functions and sines and cosines of the angular and longitudinal coordinates.

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    1) The potential inside a hollow right circular cylinder with conducting surfaces can be expressed as a double Fourier series involving Bessel functions of the first kind. 2) If the cylindrical surface is made of two half-cylinders with different potentials V and V', the coefficients of the sine terms vanish and the potential is expressed as a series involving only the cosine terms. 3) For a cylinder with half its surface at potential V and the other half at potential V', the potential inside is given by a specific double series involving ratios of Bessel functions and sines and cosines of the angular and longitudinal coordinates.

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    1) The potential inside a hollow right circular cylinder with conducting surfaces can be expressed as a double Fourier series involving Bessel functions of the first kind. 2) If the cylindrical surface is made of two half-cylinders with different potentials V and V', the coefficients of the sine terms vanish and the potential is expressed as a series involving only the cosine terms. 3) For a cylinder with half its surface at potential V and the other half at potential V', the potential inside is given by a specific double series involving ratios of Bessel functions and sines and cosines of the angular and longitudinal coordinates.

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    1) The potential inside a hollow right circular cylinder with conducting surfaces can be expressed as a double Fourier series involving Bessel functions of the first kind. 2) If the cylindrical surface is made of two half-cylinders with different potentials V and V', the coefficients of the sine terms vanish and the potential is expressed as a series involving only the cosine terms. 3) For a cylinder with half its surface at potential V and the other half at potential V', the potential inside is given by a specific double series involving ratios of Bessel functions and sines and cosines of the angular and longitudinal coordinates.

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    of 2

    Setting qa = p/2 and taking a ! 0, only the k = 0 term survives in the sum.

    The result is
    p 1 p cos ✓
    = P 1 (cos ✓) = (5)
    4⇡✏0 r2 4⇡✏0 r2
    which is the potential due to a dipole.
    c) Suppose now that the dipole of part b) is surrounded by a grounded spherical shell
    of radius b concentric with the origin. By linear superposition find the potential
    everywhere inside the shell.
    To account for the spherical shell, we add to (5) a solution to the (homogeneous)
    Laplace’s equation. For an inside solution, we have
    " 1
    #
    p 1 X
    = P1 (cos ✓) + Al rl Pl (cos ✓)
    4⇡✏0 r2
    l=0

    The boundary condition (r = b) = 0 corresponds to having


    1
    X
    Al bl+2 Pl (cos ✓) = P1 (cos ✓)
    l=0

    Since the Legendre polynomials form an orthonormal set, the only term that can
    show up on the left hand side is the l = 1 term. We then take A1 = 1/bl+2 , and
    the resulting solution is
    ✓ ◆
    p 1 r
    = cos ✓
    4⇡✏0 r2 b3

    3.9 A hollow right circular cylinder of radius b has its axis coincident with the z axis and its
    ends at z = 0 and z = L. The potential on the end faces is zero, while the potential
    on the cylindrical surface is given as V ( , z). Using the appropriate separation of
    variables in cylindrical coordinates, find a series solution for the potential anywhere
    inside the cylinder.
    The general solution obtained by separation of variables has the form
    Xn on on o
    (⇢, , z) = Jm (k⇢) or Nm (k⇢) e±im e±kz

    However, since the potential vanishes on the endcaps, it is natural to take k ! ik


    so that the z function obeying boundary conditions is sin(n⇡z/L). The result is
    to use the modified Bessel functions Im (k⇢) and Km (k⇢) instead. However, for
    the solution to be regular at ⇢ = 0 we discard the K⌫ (k⇢) functions, which blow
    up at vanishing argument. The resulting series expression for the potential is
    1 X
    X 1 ⇣ n⇡ ⌘ ⇣ n⇡ ⌘
    (⇢, , z) = Im ⇢ amn sin m + bmn cos m sin z (6)
    m=0 n=1
    L L
    In order to satisfy the boundary conditions on the cylindrical surface, we need to
    have
    X ✓ ◆ ⇣ n⇡ ⌘
    n⇡b
    V ( , z) = Im amn sin m + bmn cos m sin z
    m,n
    L L

    This is a double Fourier series in and z. As a result, the Fourier coefficients are
    ⇢ ✓ ◆ Z Z ⇢ ⇣ n⇡ ⌘
    amn n⇡b 1 2⇡
    2 L
    sin m
    Im = d dz V ( , z) sin z
    bmn L ⇡ 0 L 0 cos m L

    with the caveat that b0,n must be divided by two. This can be rewritten as
    ⇢ Z Z ⇢ ⇣ n⇡ ⌘
    amn 2 2⇡ L
    sin m
    = d dz V ( , z) sin z (7)
    bmn ⇡LIm (n⇡b/L) 0 0 cos m L

    (where b0,n has to be divided by two).

    3.10 For the cylinder in Problem 3.9 the cylindrical surface is made of two equal half-
    cylinders, one at potential V and the other at potential V , so that
    ⇢
    V for ⇡/2 < < ⇡/2
    V ( , z) =
    V for ⇡/2 < < 3⇡/2

    a) Find the potential inside the cylinder.


    To obtain the potential, we want to find the coefficients amn and bmn of the
    expansion (6) and (7). Noting first that V ( , z) = V ( ) = ±V is an even function
    of , we see that all the amn coefficients vanish. We are left with
    "Z Z 3⇡/2 # Z L
    2V ⇡/2
    n⇡z
    bmn = d cos m dz sin
    ⇡LIm (n⇡b/L) ⇡/2 ⇡/2 0 L
    2V 4 sin(m⇡/2) 1 ( )n
    = (m 6= 0)
    ⇡ Im (n⇡b/L)
    2 m n

    This is non-vanishing only when both m and n are odd. Introducing m = 2k + 1


    and n = 2l + 1, we have

    16V ( )k
    b2k+1,2l+1 =
    ⇡ 2 I2k+1 ((2l + 1)⇡b/L) (2k + 1)(2l + 1)

    Inserting this into (6) yields


    1 1
    16V X X ( )k I2k+1 ( (2l+1)⇡⇢ ) (2l + 1)⇡z
    = 2 L
    cos(2k+1) sin (8)
    ⇡ (2k + 1)(2l + 1) I2k+1 ( (2l+1)⇡b
    ) L
    k=0 l=0 L

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