Electrodynamics MOC

Electrostatics MOC

Electrostatics is a special case of electrodynamics where the electric field is time-independent and there is no Magnetic field, i.e.

Electrostatics was established empirically by Coulomb’s law, but of course it is fully encoded in Maxwell’s equations whose differential form become

whence we have integral forms

consequentially the charge continuity equation becomes

Since the Poynting vector and thus momentum density vanishes, no energy nor momentum is transported by the fields and no momentum is stored by the fields.

Potential

An electrostatic system is completely describes by the electric potential

hence solving Poisson’s equation for sources localized to

see also Multipole expansion of the electrostatic potential

Further properties

Applications


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