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ReyChiquito
Apr11-04, 06:50 PM
Hello, im new to this forums but i think you are doing a wonderfull job in helping us students trough our physics learning :redface:

Here is my q.

I have a conductor sphere moving at constant velocity trough a constant perpendicular magnetic field and i need to find the induced superficial charge distribution of the sphere under the Lorentz formalism..

i dont have any electromagnetic theory books at hand and i took the electromagnetic theory course a while back, so im kind of clueless here...

any help will be apretiated... thx

ReyChiquito
Apr12-04, 11:15 PM
lol... maybe i posted this one in the wrong board

here is what i did (if anyone is interested)

i used the relativistic form of the lorentz force and replaced the magnetic field for a "virtual" electric field acting on the sphere and simply resolved the potential equation.

i dont know if this was done right, all i have to do is wait till tomorrow.

thats of course if anyone cares :P