Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

PH 101-Electricity & Magnetism Semester-II (Spring) 2012-2013

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Due Date: Jan 11, 2013

Guidelines Write both your name and roll number clearly on the sheet on the top-right hand margin of the answer sheet. Also put down assignment number and date Show all the necessary steps clearly and concisely. Avoid scratch work on the main answer sheet Box the final answer clearly. A template of assignment answer sheet is provided to you at the beginning of the class. It can also be downloaded from the Piazza class page

Problems: 1. Prove the BAC-CAB rule ( ) = ( ) ( )

2. Consider Cartesian coordinate system : (, , ) and : ( , , ) . is obtained by rotating S along the z axis by an angle . The corresponding Rotation matrix is given by

3. Griffiths 1.13

Show that dot product of any two physical vectors A, B ( = + + ) is invariant under this transformation (I.e. = ).

cos sin 0 = sin cos 0 0 0 1

4. Prove the following identities: a. b. 5. Given a force = (2 + 3 ) + 2 + 3 2 a. Show that is a conservative force. b. Find the corresponding scalar potential where = (negative sign is neglected for simplicity) (Hint: If

= , then ( , , ) = + (, ), where you integrate

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PH 101-Electricity & Magnetism Semester-II (Spring) 2012-2013 keeping y,z constant and f is a function to be determined. Do this for other derivatives too and come up with a final consistent potential. ) 6. (a) Evaluate the Integral

over the surface of a hemisphere centered around (0,0,0) (b) Use the divergence theorem to evaluate the above integral. 7. Verify Stokes Theorem for = (2 ) 2 2 over S is the upper half surface of the sphere 2 + 2 + 2 = 1 and the circle 2 + 2 = 1, = 0 is its boundary.

8. Represent the vector = 2 + in terms of cylindrical and spherical coordinates i.e. a. Find , , b. Find , , 9. Griffiths Problem 1.37

10. Griffiths Problem 1.39