A static charge distribution produces a radial electric field E = A r e − b r where A and b are constants. What is the total charge Q ?
Hint: Use divergence of electric field, Dirac delta and the title.
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@Archit Boobna Basically it's noted Q i j = ∫ d 3 x ′ ρ ( x ′ ) ( 3 x i ′ x j ′ − δ i j x ′ 2 ) .Gauss's law is just an application of E apriori, which is a complicated quantity. Yes, using the terms of Dirac-Delta function ∫ a l l s p a c e δ 3 ( r ) d τ = 1 ∫ ρ d τ = 0 .
I don't know but Dirac delta but simple gauss law and some integration does the job.
Ya although a simple physical interpretation exists on could anyway guess it.....The constants being independent your answer must be zero anyway... This isn't quite the formal approach but just a way to make correct guesses.
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Ya... But I must say that the mathematics involved in electromagnetism is beautiful.
Hey, I also used that logic only. Do you have a solution of this question?
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Dirac delta function. Read Griffith's,this was a question of Physics OCSC 2016. Also you'll find the problem in most standard electrodynamics texts.
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@Spandan Senapati – Actually, I tried integrating, But the result came was a constant containing A and b. So i thought that 0 should be the answer.
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Doesn't need Dirac function though,using divergence theorem ∫ S E ⋅ d a = ∫ V ∇ ⋅ E d τ ,now just take the limit for R tending to be infinite.
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@Spandan Senapati – Now i know. When i commented i didnt knew
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The fact that E = A e − b r / r makes the problem quite easy,as the field behaves like 1 / r in the limit r tending to zero there isn't the case of a Dirac Function.So we simply use the Divergence theorem, ∫ V ( ∇ ⋅ E ) d τ = ∫ S E ⋅ d a and take the limit of radius tending to infinite to get the total charge. To state a better version of the same problem consider a filed where the potential varies as V ( r ) = A r e − b r then E = − d r d V = r 2 e − b r ( 1 + b r ) ,clearly this behaves as a 1 / r 2 field in the limit of r tending to zero.Hence we need the Dirac delta function.From Gauss law ρ = ϵ o ∇ . E hence we get ρ r = A ϵ o ( 4 π δ 3 ( r ) − r b 2 e − b r ) ,using the fact ∫ a l l s p a c e δ 3 ( r ) d τ = 1 we get Q = ∫ ρ d τ = 0