Creating a 2-D Electrostatic Field

[doggydan42]

I've been reading the Feynman lectures in physics. In volume 2 chapter 7: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_07.html he shows how to mathematically model a 2D electrostatic field.

Is it possible to create an experiment that behaves the same way even with the complex variables?

Thank you in advance

 

[Vanadium 50]

The complex variables are just a mathematical trick. The actual fields are real.

 

[doggydan42]

The complex variables are just a mathematical trick. The actual fields are real.

I understand that it is a mathematical formulation for 2D models, but could someone create a 2D electric field instead of a 3D one, like how graphene can be considered a 2D material.

 

[ZapperZ]

I understand that it is a mathematical formulation for 2D models, but could someone create a 2D electric field instead of a 3D one, like how graphene can be considered a 2D material.

Couldn't you just solve the Poisson equation in 2D with the appropriate boundary condition?

Zz.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Just as graphene is only approximately 2D because we live in a 3D world, electric and magntic fields can only be approximately 2D because we live in a 3D world.