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Hello,
Let's imagine we have an infinite plane (or large enough compared to the region of interest and measurements) pierced in normal direction by magnetic field B which is uniformly distributed but time varying. For the sake of simplicity we'll presume the magnetic induction is linearly (and perpetually) changing in time.
According to Maxwell equations that would generate a "curly" electric field with constant curl vector:
∇×E = -∂B(t)/∂t=const
The question is how can one visualize the actual vector field of E (the solution for E). Are there infinite number of solutions?
The traditional way of visualizing electric field lines curling around the magnetic field lines seems to fail in this case (which B lines should the E lines wrap around?).
And the consequence question - if we place a static free charge in the field described - how will it start moving (in what direction), what would be it's trajectory having in mind that once accelerated by the E field it will start being affected by the B field (I assume Lorentz low would account completely for both the effects).
Let's imagine we have an infinite plane (or large enough compared to the region of interest and measurements) pierced in normal direction by magnetic field B which is uniformly distributed but time varying. For the sake of simplicity we'll presume the magnetic induction is linearly (and perpetually) changing in time.
According to Maxwell equations that would generate a "curly" electric field with constant curl vector:
∇×E = -∂B(t)/∂t=const
The question is how can one visualize the actual vector field of E (the solution for E). Are there infinite number of solutions?
The traditional way of visualizing electric field lines curling around the magnetic field lines seems to fail in this case (which B lines should the E lines wrap around?).
And the consequence question - if we place a static free charge in the field described - how will it start moving (in what direction), what would be it's trajectory having in mind that once accelerated by the E field it will start being affected by the B field (I assume Lorentz low would account completely for both the effects).