What is the electric field in a circular region using Faraday's law?

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The problem involves determining the electric field in a circular region using Faraday's law, with a specified radius. The original poster attempts to apply the law to relate the electric field to a changing magnetic field within the circle.

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  • Exploratory, Assumption checking

Approaches and Questions Raised

  • Participants discuss the integration of the magnetic field over the area of the circle and question whether the magnetic field is constant across that area. There is a debate about the implications of the magnetic field's variability based on its defined expression.

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The discussion is ongoing, with participants exploring different interpretations of the magnetic field's constancy and its effects on the calculations. Some guidance is offered regarding the assumptions made about the magnetic field, but no consensus has been reached.

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Participants are navigating the implications of the magnetic field's variability as defined in the problem statement, which may affect the approach to solving for the electric field.

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Homework Statement


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The region is a circle with radius=a

Homework Equations


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Using Faraday's law to find E.

The Attempt at a Solution


Dealing with the Left side of the second equation first
1.) Pull out the Partial/partial t because it is a constant in this equation
2.) Now I have B dot (n-hat) da
3.) Using the dot product I know that I have |B||da|cos(theta)
4.) the angle between them is zero so I have B*da
5.) I can pull B out and integrate over the area of the circle which gives me A=2(pi)(r)^2 =2(pi)(a)^2
6.) Now I have
-[2(pi)(a)^2 * Partial(B)/partial t] this is also equal to equation 1 our emf induced
7.) Taking the partial of B with respect to t gives me
-[2(pi)(a)^2 *
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Now I deal with the right side of equation 2 which is equal to 7.)

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8.) I know that E is parallel to dl and that I can pull E out
9.) Now I integrate over dl which just gives me

E*2(pi)(r)= -[2(pi)(a)^2 *
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of course excluding the B(x,y,t).

Then I divide by 2(pi)r)
Which will give me E if I did everything correctly

 

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Ashley1nOnly said:
5.) I can pull B out and integrate over the area of the circle ...
Is B constant over the surface area of the circle?
 
Yes
 
Ashley1nOnly said:
Yes
I think not. The question says ##\vec{B}(x,y,t) = B_0 \cos (\pi x/L) \cos(\pi y /L) \sin (\omega t) \hat{k}##. At different values of x and y inside the circle the field has different values.
 
Well we don't usually do anything that's not constant because it would make it complicated. We always deal with constant things. So my assumption since it was not stated was that B was constant
 

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