May 12, 2010

PHYS 5583

(E & M II)

Final
1. 33% As shown in the gure an energetic (0 >> 1) electron is injected ( v = v0 )
at right angles into a strong electric eld (E = E0 ). The electric eld is conned
between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor. The plate separation is d and the
electron enters at (0,0) very near the grounded plate and traveling tangent to it.

V0 = E0 d
(x=?,y=d)
E = E0

?
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v = v0
(0,0)

d
?

(a) Write down Newtons laws for this electrons relativistic motion in the 3+1 dimensional form. Dont forget the fourth equation, i.e., the equation for the time
rate of change of the electrons energy.
(b) Integrate each of these 4 equations (one equation is zero) one time with respect
to the coordinate time t.
(c) Whats the electrons energy when it reaches the positive plate at y = d?
(d) From the 3 integrals found in (b) compute (t).
(e) Knowing (t) integrate 2 of the equations again to obtain y(t) and x(t).
(f) Compute how long it takes the electron to reach the positive plate and what its
x-coordinate is when it does.

2. 33%
(a) Use the retarded Greens function to compute the 4-potential caused by a time
dependent point magnetic dipole whose 4-current is
3 (r).
J = (0, c m(t)

and B
elds, (i.e., elds 1/r) from your potentials.
(b) Compute the radiation E
(c) For the particular dipole

m(t)

= m0 cos(t)k,
what is the time average of the Poynting vector as a function (r, , )?

z=0

Er

Et

E0
-

w <<
3. 33%
A plane polarized electromagnetic plane wave traveling z direction in vacuum is the
of the form:
{
}
E = Real A0 ei(kzt) ,
{
}
B = Real A0 ei(kzt) ,
(1)
where k = /c. If a wave of this form traveling in the +z direction strikes a conducting
metal sheet much thinner than a wavelength (thickness w where w << ) located in
the x-y plane at z = 0 it will be partially reected and partially transmitted through
the conductor where it emerges as a plane wave. All 3 waves are of the above form.
Call the 3 amplitudes A0 respectively E0 , Er and Et . If the conductivity of the sheet
is , a current density of the form
J = E,
will ow in the sheet. Because of the sheets thinness this current will act much
like a sheet of current at z=0 and will alter the junction condition on the tangential
component of H, i.e., the tangential component of H has a jump in it as you cross the
sheet. The jump in H can be computed using Stokes law applied to Faradays law,
Hty (H0y + Hry ) =

4
4
w(E0x + Erx ) = w(Etx ).
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c

(a) Compute the amplitudes of the reected and transmitted waves as a function of
E0 , , and thickness w.
(b) Compute the time average of the Poynting vectors of the three waves.

(c) Compute the i2 R losses in the conducting sheet and account for the source of this
energy loss. Recall that resistance is related to conductivity by
R=

length 1
.
area