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reading Smythe's book on "static and dynamic electricity" Hi, I am reading Smythe's book on "static and dynamic electricity" (1st edition, 1939) and I'm having trouble deriving some of the formulas. I wonder if someone already corrected that. For instance, 1.10 - Gauss's electric flux...

Hi, I am working on a similar problem, and there is something I don't understand in the approach above: the induced field (which is actually the displacement, right?) does not have the same units as the applied field - actually Ei has units C/m2! so that you can't get a charge density...

Hi all, I am sorry this could sound like heard many times before, but I am trying to understand this problem and found nothing in my physics books. If I put a small dielectric (bit of paper) into an electrostatic field (for example generated by a rubbed plastic rod), the paper will be...