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Statement

6.5.3. What are the surface charge density and the electrostatic pressure at the boundary between two fields with magnitudes and ? What about and ? In the second case, the surface charge density is three times larger. Why then is the electrostatic pressure the same in both cases?

Solution

Boundary conditions of two fields:

where is a free charge at the boundary.

and are normal components of electric flux density which are equal:

Using last two equations we get our surface charge density:

To find the pressure we could consider a thin cylindrical shell at the boundary of two media.Consider a portion of a cylinder with charge .Let the field of this part be and that of the remaining part be .From the superposition we know that:

Adding eq(5) and eq(6) we get:

The total force acting on the portion is:

So the pressure at the interface between two media is:

Similarly, for the second case(;) we have:

As we obtained the pressure at the interface stayed the same.In fact,we could obtain a general for using analogous reasoning:

From last equation we see that even if the sign of changes, the pressure will stay the same.

Answer

a); b);