Chapter 7

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Chapter 7: Conduction and electroquasistatic charge relaxation (PDF)
7.0 Introduction
7.1 Conduction constitutive laws
  • Ohmic conduction
  • Unipolar conduction
7.2 Steady Ohmic conduction
  • Continuity conditions
  • Conductance
  • Qualitative view of fields in conductors
7.3 Distributed current sources and associated fields
  • Distributed current source singularities
  • Fields associated with current source singularities
  • Method of images
7.4 Superposition and uniqueness of steady conduction solutions
  • Superposition to satisfy boundary conditions
  • The conductance matrix
  • Uniqueness
7.5 Steady currents in piece-wise uniform conductors
  • Analogy to fields in linear dielectrics
  • Inside-outside approximations
7.6 Conduction analogs
  • Mapping fields that satisfy Laplace's equation
7.7 Charge relaxation in uniform conductors
  • Net charge on bodies immersed in uniform materials
7.8 Electroquasistatic conduction laws for inhomogeneous material
  • Evolution of unpaired charge density
  • Electroquasistatic potential distribution
  • Uniqueness
7.9 Charge relaxation in uniform and piece-wise uniform systems
  • Fields in regions having uniform properties
  • Continuity conditions in piece-wise uniform systems
  • Nonuniform fields in piece-wise uniform systems
7.10 Summary

7.5.1: Distribution of Unpaired Charge (Courtesy of Education Development Center, Inc. Used with permission.)

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7.5.2: Rotation of an Insulating Rod in a Steady Current (Courtesy of Education Development Center, Inc. Used with permission.)

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7.7.1: Relaxation of Charge on Particle in Ohmic Conductor (Courtesy of Education Development Center, Inc. Used with permission.) Demo Demo and Theory

7.7.1 Supplement: Van de Graaff and Kelvin generators (Courtesy of Education Development Center, Inc. Used with permission.)

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7.7.2: Electrostatic precipitation

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